did you mean "./steemd"? ... "./steemit" isn't recognised, and to my knowledge there isn't anything named steemit.
./steemd doesn't work any better, as it just loads up and then replays the blockchain, percent by percent and lists the hard-forks, which takes 20mins+, and that was after using the Ctrl-C to shutdown mining cleanly
corrected it. Yup. It can take a little bit of time to replay the blockchain, but should start back up