Incoming from gmorais: > Ruby Deepdelver wrote: > > >Hi. I'm a newbie in debian, and almost everything that i used to do in > >Mandrake now doesn't work in debian. I understand i'm doing something > >in the wrong way. > >I need to configure in my account some extra entries in the PATH > >variable. I configure my .bash_profile and it looks like this: > > > >PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/usr/local/eclipse > > > > > > > >but the only thing i get in bash is: > > > >bash-2.05b$ echo $PATH > >/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > > This is something like newbie to newbie: I had the same problem while > ago and the solution was: > > 1. edit your .bashrc file and add a line with: > source .bash_profile > > 2. Then you have to logout (or login elsewhere) for your changes take > effect ;
The last time I read O'Reilly's Learning the Bash Shell, it said .bash_profile is run on all logins. .bashrc is run on top of that (automagically) for all _interactive_ logins (which is why aliases should be defined in .bashrc). For Ruby, I'd suggest _exporting_ your PATH variable once you've fiddled with it. Then start a new x/k/g*term and echo PATH there. Finally, see if you have a .profile, because this can foul things up. Move that somewhere else, then start a terminal and do the echo PATH thing again. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]