[ILUG] Commands have stopped working

[John Allen]

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:12, 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.
>

You either don't have /usr mounted, or you have screwed up your /etc/profile.

do an rpm -qf /etc/profile
then
an rpm --verify whatever-package-contained-/etc/profile

replace whatever-package-contained-/etc/profile with the package named spewed 
foeth from the rpm -qf

> Sorry about this, but I'm going to have to include it as an attachment. 
> the screen reader in Windows cant understand it so I cant extract the lines
> with the path.
>
> While reading it in linux I noticed something like
> PATH=:$PATH
>

This prepends the current directory to the PATH; bad idea, this is a DOS'ism 
and should be avoided.

> This is frustrating, two steps forward and one step back.  After spending
> nearly eight hours on the access bridge I really hope I don't have to
> reinstall.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Darragh

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John Allen,                          Email:  mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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