seems Ok,
Could you try to lauch amaya with an absolute path, e.g.
/usr/local/Thot/LINUX-ELF/bin/amaya
Be sure to add the /usr/local/Thot/LINUX-ELF/bin directory to
your PATH. Check also that your PATH variable is less than
1024 chars. Be sure that you don't start an old batch file
or that symlinks are not the cause of the problem ...
You could also try to start amaya under strace control to
grab the system calls history :
strace -o /tmp/amaya.trace amaya
then look at the en of the /tmp/amaya.trace log file for the
file accesses failures (he's trying to open the thot.ini file
for sure ...). This will give hints on where he expect to find
it at least.
hope this help,
Daniel