commands not recognised

[simon]

I having trouble getting my vps to recognise commands. for instance, with Surgemail, I am supposed to be able to cd to a directory, then:

webmail.exe -password newpass or
surgemail -password

I get to the directory, but it gives webmail.exe command not found etc.

[paulredpath]

Have you checked the file exists?

[simon]

It does seem to exist - it gives 1339 then the path to webmail.exe

[iloop]

is the files executable ?

ie x shows with ls -al

[simon]

hi there

yes it is

[iloop]

does it make any difference if you do:-

./webmail.exe -password newpass

not sure what else it could be, is 1339 a webmail error code ?

[rob]

Just checking, that is a Linux binary? Not a Windows .exe? (just checking).

Have you checked that the path to the binary is in your PATH?

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/the/folder/webmail.exe/is/in

Rob

[simon]

thanks, yes that helped - it told me I was in the wrong dir (there are two copies of the file)