[ILUG] Commands have stopped working

[Darragh]

yes, its happening to all users
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      Why do we spend more time troubleshooting our systems than actually
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin McCullagh" <ilug_gmc at fiachra.ucd.ie>
To: "Irish Linux Users Group" <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Commands have stopped working


> 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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