Hi,
I tend to see this problem from time to time but dont know whats exactly causing it.
The problem is When I connect to the ESXi4.1thro ssh and try to run any command it gives the following message (as shown in the attachment).
It happens intermittently and after a reboot it would again start working fine.
Any help?
My guess would be that the shell is "hidden" and it gets touchy at times. I doubt there is any real issue that you are having with the ESXi server.
You can check the contents of your environment variable $path( /sbin)
echo $PATH
Also you can start esxtop as
./esxtop
or
/sbin/esxtop
Hi,
Thanks . It works with the way you said.
but the point is normally I do not add the path or ./ when i run any command and it would work. so how it runs and suddenly doesnt?
Thanks
If the path "/sbin" is in the variable $path you do not need to specify the path, if it is not there then you have to specify the full/relative path
/sbin/esxtop
or
./esxtop
.
You are working with an prompt $, it looks like that you have created a new user, but by default created users have the value $path only "/bin", just as root has "/bin:/sbin".
:smileyplus:
>so how it runs and suddenly doesnt?
It depends on the paths contained in the variable $path.