Total Newbie running applications

[scottyjohn]

Hi all,
I am starting to look at Solaris and I am having a problem. I see a lot of info about managing file systems and system maintanance but I cant seem to find how to run an application? Sorry for the dumb question but I am struggling here! #-)
John
ski_69@hotmail.com

 

[KenCunningham]

John,

can you give some more info. on the type of application you're wanting to run? Are we talking Oracle or similar, or in-house things? Cheers.

 

[ecasadella]

First of all you will find out where this application is, to do this type:

which <appl name> OR whereis <appl name>

if this doesn't have the appl in your $PATH, then try:

find / -name <appl name> 2>/dev/null

it's a little slow thought.

Once you have the appl path, then you can excecute it by givig absolute path and the appl name

for instance
/usr/local/myappl/<appl name>

or change to that directory and execute it

cd /usr/local/myappl
./<appl name>

If excecute mode it's not activated on the file, check it by:

ls -l <appl name>

and you can find what kind of file this is

file <appl name>

Hope this helps
EDC