On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That was the problem. Thanks for your patience. > > So now I have two questions: > > 1 - Is there a good tutorial or reference where I should have looked for this? > I spent alot of time looking before I posted the question, but didn't find the > answer. In the **good old days** of DOS I would have found the solution with > very little effort. :-) Not sure. there's probably some doc on it at www.linuxdoc.org.. also /usr/doc/bash-vernumber. > > 2 - Can you see any reason to put a PATH command in /root/.bashrc where it > overwrites the default in etc/profile? I suppose I could have added the > directory I wanted there, but instead I deleted the PATH command so the default > path from /etc/profile would take effect. It seems to me that the whole point > of having config files in /etc is to keep them all in one convenient location. > Only special changes should be done elsewhere. Usually there's on /root/.bashrc there's a line to add /usr/sbin,/sbin etc to path. depends on your dist. Try emailing you dist devteam with that. > > > On 23-Nov-2000 Sagi Bashari wrote: > > Check your ~/.*bash* files. maybe one of them reset PATH. > > (~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile). > > > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> I already tried that and it didn't work either. I get the same **symptom**. > >> The > >> echo command in /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc seem to show that the directory > >> has > >> been added to the path, but **echo $PATH** at the prompt shows the path has > >> not > >> changed. > >> > >> On 23-Nov-2000 Sagi Bashari wrote: > >> > > >> > Are you using bash at all? > >> > > >> > try adding that line to /etc/bashrc too. > >> > > >> > > >> > >> //------------------------- > >> Shlomo Solomon > >> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://come.to/shlomo.solomon > >> Date: 23-Nov-2000 Time: 20:20:29 > >> > >> Message sent by XFMail on a LINUX Mandrake 7.2 machine > >> //------------------------- > >> > >> ================================================================= > >> To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >> the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > >> echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > _ > > ___ __ _ __ _(_) Sagi Bashari > > (_-</ _` / _` | | - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /__/\__,_\__, |_| > > |___/ > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > //------------------------- > Shlomo Solomon > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://come.to/shlomo.solomon > Date: 23-Nov-2000 Time: 21:13:35 > > Message sent by XFMail on a LINUX Mandrake 7.2 machine > //------------------------- > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
