On Tue, 06 Jan 2004, Darragh wrote:
> Hello,
> when I started the machine in Linux this morning I found that none of the
> commands work.
>> I can so far use:
> clear
> cd
> and pwd
> but commands like ls cat grep locate etc don't work.
Do you get "command not found" or some other error? You say "don't work"
which is a little non-specific.
Things that occur to me:
1. $PATH is set wrong or unset. I know you did this from memory but a
simple typo in that script, ie ommitting the $ before PATH would have that effect.
export PATH=/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program:$PATH
export PATH=/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program:PATH
Try:
/bin/echo $PATH
2. Upgrade of C library or some such has broken the binaries. You should
get a different error if it's this.
3. A filesystem is not mounted. You almost certainly have /bin on the root
partition though so 'ls' would be working if this were the problem.
Gavin
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