After sshing (using putty with X11 enabled) into my virtual box VM, I tried to open an xterm window. However the following command:

xterm -sb 500

or even

/usr/bin/xterm -sb 500

returns the error:

xterm: No absolute path found for shell: 500

I cant seem to figure out what the error even means!

EDIT:

ls -la /usr/bin/xterm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 450888 Sep 28  2012 /usr/bin/xterm

alias xterm
-bash: alias: xterm: not found

After sshing (using putty with X11 enabled) into my virtual box VM, I tried to open an xterm window. However the following command:

xterm -sb 500

or even

/usr/bin/xterm -sb 500

returns the error:

xterm: No absolute path found for shell: 500

I cant seem to figure out what the error even means!

EDIT:

ls -la /usr/bin/xterm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 450888 Sep 28  2012 /usr/bin/xterm

alias xterm
-bash: alias: xterm: not found 


DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="12.10, Quantal Quetzal"

After sshing (using putty with X11 enabled) into my virtual box VM, I tried to open an xterm window. However the following command:

xterm -sb 500

or even

/usr/bin/xterm -sb 500

returns the error:

xterm: No absolute path found for shell: 500

I cant seem to figure out what the error even means!

After sshing (using putty with X11 enabled) into my virtual box VM, I tried to open an xterm window. However the following command:

xterm -sb 500

or even

/usr/bin/xterm -sb 500

returns the error:

xterm: No absolute path found for shell: 500

I cant seem to figure out what the error even means!

EDIT:

ls -la /usr/bin/xterm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 450888 Sep 28  2012 /usr/bin/xterm

alias xterm
-bash: alias: xterm: not found