On Tue, 06 Jan 2004, Darragh wrote:
> > Aaargh. Have a look in /etc/profile or in .bashrc/.bash_profile in your
> > home directory. You've clobbered the default path somewhere. Looks
> > like you've probably quoted it somewhere i.e. export PATH='$PATH':
> >
> Ok, I've made a backup of my .bashrc file in /root and coppied a .bashrc
> from my account. Still the same result so I looked at the /etc/profile
> file.
Do you have the same issue with root and your ordinary user? If so, it's
likely to be a global file at fault (eg /etc/profile as above). If it's
specific to a user, try the users .bashrc & .bash_profile etc.
A quick way to find what's causing this might be:
/bin/egrep 'PATH' ~username/.??*
and
/bin/egrep 'PATH' /etc/*
Gavin
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