On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 12:02:30PM -0400, Bill Leach wrote: > Hi Gerald; > > Though I noticed your original posting I did not then comment for it > being too much of a 'blind leading the blind' situation.
More like the blind leading the stupid... Read on. > > What I did notice is that the lines you quoted: [snip] > > should work. I am most assuredly not a shell guru but the command > 'hash' is a bash internal command. _I_ would expect that shells other > than bash should work correctly because the 'hash' command itself > would not exist and that would be an error. > Your talk of shells other than bash made something click that should have clicked before. Bash is the shell I use. However, not so long ago, I changed the /bin/sh symlink from bash to ash so that netscape helper apps would not get screwed up by the double parantheses problem. I keep a log of changes to and maintainance on my system. When I saw this symlink change, I reasoned that root's shell is bash, and since I never saw any #!/bin/sh as the first line of any of the files I looked through, bash would be used. I never gave it a second thought. Thanks for coming forward. And thanks to all those who offered help. I'll likely be back as I have compiled but things are not working as smoothly as they might. But I am going to go back to the docs first. Thanks again to all. Gerald Crimp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]