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Creating symbolic link in Red Hat linux

Hi Guys,

I am new ot Linux, I am trying to run a program called dynamips (cisco router simulater)  on Red Hard Linux 5.2. Here is what I did, I download the .bin file to /opt/dynamips/

chmod 755 dynamips-0.2.7-RC2-x86  (to make it excutable)
cd /usr/sbin
ln -s /opt/dynamips/dynamips-0.2.7-RC-x86.bin dynamips (link the file to single command dynamips)

but when I try to run dynmips it says command not found, can someone help please

Cheers
Eric
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try like this

./dynamips
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it says no such file or directory
From which location  are you trying to execute the file ??
thanks guys
the command
ln -s /opt/dynamips/dynamips-0.2.7-RC-x86.bin /usr/sbin/dynamips

worked, thank u all