Can not find command

[seppeku]

I have to clarify that I'm new to HP-UX, but not Unix.

HP-UX 10.20
New install
I'm trying to run any command in a hpterm window, but I keep getting a "cannot be found" message.

Any ideas why it would be doing this. I opened the login file and the path statement looks good.

Any suggestions

Thanks in advance

 

[arathorn]

Hello:

Have you tried to execute a command with the absolute path?

Best regards,
Mario.

 

[seppeku]

Yeap I tried that

Thanks

 

[bi]

There might be something further down in your .profile that undoes the path. Can you post your .profile here?

Can you cd into any directory, especially /usr/bin or /sbin? It would be nice to get a long listing of the contents of at least one of those directories.

Have you applied patches to the system since its installation?

 

[seppeku]

Thanks for the response.

I found a work around.

What I realized was that I was using hpterm to run my commands. That's where I was having the problem. So I got the bright idea to try a different terminal program such as xterm or dtterm. Once I opened one of these terminals I was able to run the various command line commands. Not sure why hpterm would not allow me to execute.

Any ideas?

 

[HornedOne]

Does the user have permissions against the executable?

 

[HornedOne]

Forget my prior response, I posted at the same time as everyone else!

 

[billalger]

You may want to look at your path statements in your .profile. You may also want to look at /usr/local/environment and /usr/local/environment.site.

Here are the basic entries for paths:
/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin/local:/var/yp:/usr/bin/X11: