Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick. I have no problem accessing it from the command line. It's just for eye comfort that I wanted to do it in konqueror. At a pinch I could read it in a root console, which would certainly be easier than in a user console, but I don't like to do unnecessary things as root. Perhaps I got the command wrong in konqueror? Anne Someone might have already answered to this later in the thread but I think want you need is: Open a new tab or page in konqueror and in the address bar type: Man:iptables Enjoy. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 05:04, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Sunday, April 3, 2005, 1:25:11 AM, Anne wrote: AW No man page matching to iptables found. Take a look at iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net - you might find it more useful than the man pages. Other similar stuff through Google, too. Noted, thanks. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgp0tcxTlXgEW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 08:36, SnapafunFrank wrote: Someone might have already answered to this later in the thread but I think want you need is: Open a new tab or page in konqueror and in the address bar type: Man:iptables That's what didn't work for me, but man:/iptables does work. Others are reporting that both forms work for them, so I don't know why my setup is different. Thanks for answering. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpMNoWJQkXzH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 03:44, RickSisler wrote: Yep, that works also, for some reason I wrote down in my things to remember book that the syntax is man:/manpage name man: also works for me .. but it shows this man:/ in the konqueror handbook subject: Viewing Help, Man and Info Pages shoulda looked there first I guess, when I answered earlier ;) Funny, I never thought of that. For a graphic app, a word processor, almost any other kind of app, I would have looked there, but not for konqueror. Perhaps its the last vestige of windows days, when the file manager was something quite separate in our minds than the other applications. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpyYzT84Zdx2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 Apr 2005 05:04, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Sunday, April 3, 2005, 1:25:11 AM, Anne wrote: AW No man page matching to iptables found. Take a look at iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net - you might find it more useful than the man pages. Other similar stuff through Google, too. Noted, thanks. Anne Its Monday morning, and I am back at my Linux machine, so I can get the right file names. I lost the original message some ware, so this isn't a direct reply to this message, but to the thread. Now, the man command uses several ways to find the man page you are looking for. I am not sure, but I think konqueror is doing the same thing. If you have MANPATH defined, it will use that. If you do not, then it looks at /etc/man.conf to generate a search path. If it is working from the config file, it will then also use PATH, along with a few other shell variables, to determine the search path. With most systems, it is not going to make a difference if you are running as a user, or as root. If anything, the user's PATH may find some man pages that root will not. (man pages for games, off the /usr/game directory tree.) One thing you may want to do is take a look at some of the options in /etc/man.conf and deside if you want to broaden the search path for man pages. If you use the man command to look at man pages, you may also want to look at some of the shell variables that can be set to change the way man displays things... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 17:07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing you may want to do is take a look at some of the options in /etc/man.conf and deside if you want to broaden the search path for man pages. If you use the man command to look at man pages, you may also want to look at some of the shell variables that can be set to change the way man displays things... Thanks, Mikkel. Although I got the help I needed to read man pages in konqueror, I'll still explore this a bit further. You never know when it will come in handy ;-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgp3bk2L7MFA4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, but got the error No man page matching to iptables found. You can extend the search path by setting the environment variable MANPATH before starting KDE. I tried to set the variable - probably doing it completely wrong, but I've clearly screwed up $PATH. [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# $PATH bash: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin: No such file or directory I presume there's a text file somewhere that I can edit to clean this up? Anne There are a couple of problems here. The first is that PATH and MANPATH are not the same. The second is that $PATH is a shell varable that you set, or is set for you when you log in. You can defind a shell varable in a couple of ways. VARABLE=some value PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin What happens when you use $PATH, $HOME or any of the other shell varables in a command line is that the value of the varable is used when processing the command. When you type $PATH on the command line, you were in effect trying to run the command: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin: Bash complained that it could not find that command. Now, as far as you not being to read the IP tables man page, I can not check on what pakage the man page is part of at the moment, but if noone else fills in that part of the answer, then I will get back to you later on it. Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, but got the error No man page matching to iptables found. You can extend the search path by setting the environment variable MANPATH before starting KDE. I tried to set the variable - probably doing it completely wrong, but I've clearly screwed up $PATH. [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# $PATH bash: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin: No such file or directory I presume there's a text file somewhere that I can edit to clean this up? Anne There are a couple of problems here. The first is that PATH and MANPATH are not the same. The second is that $PATH is a shell varable that you set, or is set for you when you log in. You can defind a shell varable in a couple of ways. VARABLE=some value PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin What happens when you use $PATH, $HOME or any of the other shell varables in a command line is that the value of the varable is used when processing the command. When you type $PATH on the command line, you were in effect trying to run the command: [ snip ] Now, as far as you not being to read the IP tables man page, I can not check on what pakage the man page is part of at the moment, but if noone else fills in that part of the answer, then I will get back to you later on it. Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Mikkel mentioned this a couple weeks ago, may help some: qoute The directoryies /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin are not normaly in a user's path. They are in root's path when you log in as root, or when you su - to root. Normaly, when you do su instead of su -, you keep the same path. But in Mandrake 10.1, when ever root opens a shell, the path is set to fixed path by /root/.bashrc. So you may want to check the .bashrc file in /root to be sure it is correct. /qoute root's path here is the same as yours Anne: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # echo $PATH /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin $ whereis iptables iptables: /sbin/iptables /lib/iptables /usr/share/man/man8/iptables.8.bz2 $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/share/man/man8/iptables.8.bz2 iptables-1.2.9-7.1.101mdk I don't have a $MANPATH environment variable here .. but checked and configuration for manpages is here: /etc/man.config also ran man -d will show debugging and -w shows where the manpage is located $ man -dw iptables Reading config file /etc/man.config found man directory /usr/share/man found man directory /usr/X11R6/man found man directory /usr/local/man found man directory /usr/kerberos/man found man directory /usr/man found manpath map /bin -- /usr/share/man found manpath map /sbin -- /usr/share/man found manpath map /usr/bin -- /usr/share/man found manpath map /usr/sbin -- /usr/share/man found manpath map /usr/local/bin -- /usr/local/man found manpath map /usr/local/sbin -- /usr/local/man found manpath map /usr/X11R6/bin -- /usr/X11R6/man found manpath map /usr/bin/X11 -- /usr/X11R6/man found manpath map /usr/bin/mh -- /usr/share/man found manpath map /usr/kerberos/bin -- /usr/kerberos/man found manpath map /usr/kerberos/sbin -- /usr/kerberos/man using /usr/bin/less -isrR as pager path directory /sbin is in the config file adding /usr/share/man/en to manpath adding /usr/share/man to manpath path directory /usr/sbin is in the config file path directory /bin is in the config file path directory /usr/bin is in the config file path directory /usr/X11R6/bin is in the config file adding /usr/X11R6/man to manpath path directory /usr/local/bin is in the config file path directory /usr/local/sbin is in the config file path directory /usr/games is not in the config file but there is a man directory nearby adding /usr/man to manpath path directory /usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_05/bin is not in the config file and we found no man directory nearby path directory is not in the config file and we found no man directory nearby path directory /home/ricks/bin is not in the config file and we found no man directory nearby adding mandatory man directories /usr/share/man/man8/iptables.8.bz2 Some places to look .. hope that helps .. ;) -- RickS gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing. -- Bits Pieces Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick. I have no problem accessing it from the command line. It's just for eye comfort that I wanted to do it in konqueror. At a pinch I could read it in a root console, which would certainly be easier than in a user console, but I don't like to do unnecessary things as root. Perhaps I got the command wrong in konqueror? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpIKzSv850kS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick. I have no problem accessing it from the command line. It's just for eye comfort that I wanted to do it in konqueror. At a pinch I could read it in a root console, which would certainly be easier than in a user console, but I don't like to do unnecessary things as root. Perhaps I got the command wrong in konqueror? Anne The path searched for man pages is not the same as the one searched for programs. You do not have to be root to read the man pages for commands that are normally restricted to root. The default man path is controlled by a config file in /etc. But if the man command works right from the command line, then that is not the problem here. Mikkel -- Remember: Sometimes the dragon wins! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Sunday 03 April 2005 02:08 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick. I have no problem accessing it from the command line. It's just for eye comfort that I wanted to do it in konqueror. At a pinch I could read it in a root console, which would certainly be easier than in a user console, but I don't like to do unnecessary things as root. Perhaps I got the command wrong in konqueror? Anne Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 14:16:59 up 17:02, 2 users, load average: 0.56, 0.39, 0.38 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. -- Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 20:18, Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 02:08 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick. I have no problem accessing it from the command line. It's just for eye comfort that I wanted to do it in konqueror. At a pinch I could read it in a root console, which would certainly be easier than in a user console, but I don't like to do unnecessary things as root. Perhaps I got the command wrong in konqueror? Anne Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. Chris, you're a star! I had missed the '/'! Thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpcqVputaLdM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Anne Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick. I have no problem accessing it from the command line. It's just for eye comfort that I wanted to do it in konqueror. At a pinch I could read ^^^ ^^^ I do the same thing too .. 8) it in a root console, which would certainly be easier than in a user console, but I don't like to do unnecessary things as root. Perhaps I got the command wrong in konqueror? Anne Hi Anne, sorry to waste bandwidth if it was too much info .. hmm .. I was trying to see if it wasn't working from commandline then help you diagnose it, or if it was to identify it as KDE or konqueror problem maybe .. It works for me also as Chris typed: man:/iptables .. -- RickS gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. Chris, you're a star! I had missed the '/'! Thanks Anne Anne: It works here (cooker) without the '/'. Just man:iptables. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. Chris, you're a star! I had missed the '/'! Thanks Anne Anne: It works here (cooker) without the '/'. Just man:iptables. Adolfo ditto here on 10.0 man:iptables Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:38 pm, mike wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. Chris, you're a star! I had missed the '/'! Thanks Anne Anne: It works here (cooker) without the '/'. Just man:iptables. Adolfo ditto here on 10.0 man:iptables Mike Yep, that works also, for some reason I wrote down in my things to remember book that the syntax is man:/manpage name -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 15:42:32 up 18:28, 2 users, load average: 0.71, 0.59, 0.51 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk The most common given name in the world is Mohammad; the most common family name in the world is Chang. Can you imagine the enormous number of people in the world named Mohammad Chang? -- Derek Wills Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:38 pm, mike wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. Chris, you're a star! I had missed the '/'! Thanks Anne Anne: It works here (cooker) without the '/'. Just man:iptables. Adolfo ditto here on 10.0 man:iptables Mike Works for me with either syntax in 10.1, KDE 3.2 Cam -- Closing the Windows in my life Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 21:43, Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:38 pm, mike wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. Chris, you're a star! I had missed the '/'! Thanks Anne Anne: It works here (cooker) without the '/'. Just man:iptables. Adolfo ditto here on 10.0 man:iptables Mike Yep, that works also, for some reason I wrote down in my things to remember book that the syntax is man:/manpage name That's strange. man:iptables is what I was trying, without success, whereas man:/iptables worked. I thought that the first version was what I had used before. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgp8HcHQjoTEK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 21:02, RickSisler wrote: Anne Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick. I have no problem accessing it from the command line. It's just for eye comfort that I wanted to do it in konqueror. At a pinch I could read ^^^ ^^^ I do the same thing too .. 8) it in a root console, which would certainly be easier than in a user console, but I don't like to do unnecessary things as root. Perhaps I got the command wrong in konqueror? Anne Hi Anne, sorry to waste bandwidth if it was too much info .. No problem, Rick. I appreciate the attempt to help. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpxR2a4wmPG8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:38 pm, mike wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. Chris, you're a star! I had missed the '/'! Thanks Anne Anne: It works here (cooker) without the '/'. Just man:iptables. Adolfo ditto here on 10.0 man:iptables Mike Yep, that works also, for some reason I wrote down in my things to remember book that the syntax is man:/manpage name Chris, I tried man:/ and it does seem kinda handy if all you can remember is the begining of the manpage you are looking for. Like man:/tc the drop down shows all the manpages begining with tc Thats going into my things to remember book also :-) Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
On Sunday 03 April 2005 05:46 pm, mike wrote: Yep, that works also, for some reason I wrote down in my things to remember book that the syntax is man:/manpage name Chris, I tried man:/ and it does seem kinda handy if all you can remember is the begining of the manpage you are looking for. Like man:/tc the drop down shows all the manpages begining with tc Thats going into my things to remember book also :-) Mike And if you do a man:/ you'll get this: UNIX Manual Index Section 1 User Commands Section 2 System Calls Section 3 Subroutines Section 4 Devices Section 5 File Formats Section 6 Games Section 7 Miscellaneous Section 8 System Administration Section 9 Kernel Section n New -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 19:17:25 up 2:55, 3 users, load average: 0.44, 0.33, 0.18 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it needs to be. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:38 pm, mike wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Anne, are you using man:/iptables on the Konqueror url line? It works fine here on my box. [ snip.. ] Chris, you're a star! I had missed the '/'! Thanks Anne It works here (cooker) without the '/'. Just man:iptables. Adolfo [ snip.. ] ditto here on 10.0 man:iptables Mike Yep, that works also, for some reason I wrote down in my things to remember book that the syntax is man:/manpage name man: also works for me .. but it shows this man:/ in the konqueror handbook subject: Viewing Help, Man and Info Pages shoulda looked there first I guess, when I answered earlier ;) -- RickS gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. --Ken Dodd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Oops
Hello Anne, Sunday, April 3, 2005, 1:25:11 AM, Anne wrote: AW No man page matching to iptables found. Take a look at iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net - you might find it more useful than the man pages. Other similar stuff through Google, too. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] path to synthesis/hdlist?
On Monday 31 Mar 2003 8:48 am, Vahur Lokk wrote: Sorry for stupid question, I want to set up ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/contrib as an urpmi source. Where is the subject? Wahur From http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PATH
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 9:50 pm, Peter Watson wrote: I've been following the xine thread and its led me to a new problem. My $PATH contains both /usr//bin and /usr/bin. This seems to stop xine-check from finding my xine plugin directory, if I reset the path without /usr//bin, xine-check runs without error. I found a thread about this on alt.os.mandrake, but it was way above my head. Can anyone here suggest why I have this apparently incorrect entry in my $PATH variable. I've run grep PATH * everwhere I think the PATH might have been set but have not found anything that looks as if its setting /usr//bin. I wonder if it's xine itself that's doing it. I had the same in my xine-check report. When I finally discovered that the missing file was the libdvdcss2-1.2.4-1plf I installed it and the problem simply went away. xine-check did not find it after that, and now everything is working fine. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PATH
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 08:50, Peter Watson wrote: I've been following the xine thread and its led me to a new problem. My $PATH contains both /usr//bin and /usr/bin. This seems to stop xine-check from finding my xine plugin directory, if I reset the path without /usr//bin, xine-check runs without error. I found a thread about this on alt.os.mandrake, but it was way above my head. Can anyone here suggest why I have this apparently incorrect entry in my $PATH variable. I've run grep PATH * everwhere I think the PATH might have been set but have not found anything that looks as if its setting /usr//bin. Your path is going to be set in two places - 1.) System path - /etc/profile 2.) User path - ~/home/usernamegoeshere/.bashrc Check both for the unscrupulous error... -- Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:00:00 +1100 10:00am up 5 days, 19:43, 5 users, load average: 0.04, 0.10, 0.13 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink. -- Richard Burton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PATH
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 00:16, Gil Katz wrote: Hi where do i add path to the PATH ? Gil You can edit your ~/home/username/.bashrc and do a export /whateverpath/morepaths:$PATH and save it... -- Fri Jan 17 00:30:00 EST 2003 12:30am up 10:13, 4 users, load average: 0.31, 0.25, 0.24 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Man who falls in blast furnace is certain to feel overwrought. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PATH for Qt
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:52 am, Erik wrote: I downloaded the tar.bz2 file for qt-x11-free-3.0.6, configured,compiled and installed it. Works nicely. One problem. The INSTALL file indicated that I needed to create a .profile in my user directory and add four lines defining PATH for it's main directory, libs directory, etc. and then log out and back in for the paths to be loaded. I followed the instructions...didn't matter whether the .profile was in the user home directory or the root home directoryit didn't load the PATH as indicated. As long as I typed in the PATH lines individually (enter after each) and the typed in the export command at the end (followed by enter), it worked fine. However, each time I log out, reboot, etc, I have to type in the PATH and export commands again! Where can I add these commands so they become 'permanent' (at least until I remove them) ?? Is this something that needs to be added to /etc/profile.d ?? Thanks for any light you can shed on this. Erik, I think you will find that you should add those to .bash_profile in your home directory rather than .profile. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Path Variable
try putting the following in the command field of your launcher properties. export PATH=/usr/local/j2re1.3.1/bin:$PATH limewire On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 09:48, John Bodden wrote: I am trying to install LimeWire. Where to I configure the path variable. LimeWire is telling me that I do not have a Java VM in my path, evn though I have the J2re installed -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Path Variable
Two ways, either edit your ~/.bash_profile (for an individual user), or your /etc/profile (for system wide) to include the path to the java executable in your PATH statement for example PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin Next time you open a shell the path will be found. The other way is to create a symlink in your /usr/bin directory like this ln -s /usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin /usr/bin/java HTH derek On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:48:07 -0400 John Bodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install LimeWire. Where to I configure the path variable. LimeWire is telling me that I do not have a Java VM in my path, evn though I have the J2re installed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Path Variable
I created a file called java.sh in /etc/profile.d/ which contains the following lines: JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0_01 export JAVA_HOME PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export PATH /stefano Derek Jennings wrote: Two ways, either edit your ~/.bash_profile (for an individual user), or your /etc/profile (for system wide) to include the path to the java executable in your PATH statement for example PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin Next time you open a shell the path will be found. The other way is to create a symlink in your /usr/bin directory like this ln -s /usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin /usr/bin/java HTH derek On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:48:07 -0400 John Bodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install LimeWire. Where to I configure the path variable. LimeWire is telling me that I do not have a Java VM in my path, evn though I have the J2re installed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Path Variable
Whoops...I noticed a mistake I made in the symlink example I gave. It should be ln -s /usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin/java /usr/bin/java derek On Friday 27 Sep 2002 11:30 pm, Stefano Pogliani wrote: I created a file called java.sh in /etc/profile.d/ which contains the following lines: JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0_01 export JAVA_HOME PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export PATH /stefano Derek Jennings wrote: Two ways, either edit your ~/.bash_profile (for an individual user), or your /etc/profile (for system wide) to include the path to the java executable in your PATH statement for example PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin Next time you open a shell the path will be found. The other way is to create a symlink in your /usr/bin directory like this ln -s /usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin /usr/bin/java HTH derek On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:48:07 -0400 John Bodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install LimeWire. Where to I configure the path variable. LimeWire is telling me that I do not have a Java VM in my path, evn though I have the J2re installed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Path Variable
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 08:30, Stefano Pogliani wrote: I created a file called java.sh in /etc/profile.d/ which contains the following lines: JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0_01 export JAVA_HOME PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export PATH I decided that I would try to do this using the alternatives system (which Mandrake already uses for Java). This is what I came up with (using j2re1.4.0 from SUN). (as root)... - copy j2re1.4.0 directory to /usr/lib - run (one line): update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/j2re1.4.0/bin/java 40 Now, Java 1.4.0 is the preferred alternative and I am keeping within the /etc/alternatives system. Perhaps Mandrake could look at providing a GUI for managing /etc/alternatives for 9.1? btw, if anyone can see a problem with this approach, please let me know. I've only just set it up, so haven't had a chance to test thoroughly. Regards, John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Statement
On 09 Mar 2002 19:17:30 +0900 Charles wrote: This may have something to do with my inabilities to run Open Office easily: All the Linux books I have read seem to indicate that the PATH statement should be in my .bashrc file. But none of the .bashrc files on my system have a PATH statement in them. Should I add one? That would not help much in this case. Paul -- Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't and dead men can't. -John H. Patterson http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PATH Statement
dfox wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1015668631-29535-331 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This may have something to do with my inabilities to run Open Office easily: All the Linux books I have read seem to indicate that the PATH Open Ofice is usually installed outside PATH, typically in /opt, but yes, it may not be in your PATH. There should be a private Open Office directory in yyuor home directory, and you can make a private 'bin' directory and add that to your PATH. It may already be set up to add /home/yourusername/bin as default anyway. Usually, the default PATH is set as part of the startup routine, but you should have a PATH in your .bashrc if you want to add or remove directories to search. By the way, each user (or process, actually) has their own copy of PATH, and can differ. It's not like Windows or DOS where it's system-wide. Charles, in my setup the last bits of the default PATH are added towards the bottom of /etc/profile during the startup. To read the default PATH comment out any additions to it in your .bashrc. Start a new bash shell or type source .bashrc then type echo $PATH. -- I have to convince you, or at least snow you ... -- Prof. Romas Aleliunas, CS 435 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] $PATH is wacked
The Path statement is built up by the execution of various scripts. PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/bin: Would append the :/usr/java/bin: to the path statement variable as it existed at the start of script execution. Thus if you only looked at on place for this you would not find it. The only thing wrong with your path, is that somewhere the existing path is being appended to itself.. I.E. PATH=PATH$:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games: in one file Is followed by PATH=PATH$:.:PATH$ In another, or something very similar to this... Look at /etc/profile /etc/.bashrc /etc/.bash_profile Etc. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of michael |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:54 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] $PATH is wacked | | |I haven't modified my $PATH, but something sure has (at |least I hope so) |[michael@michael michael]$ echo $PATH |/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/X11R6/ |bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ |games:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/ |home/michael/bin | |[root@michael CIS55A]# echo $PATH |/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin | |Very weird. I haven't done anything to anyone's path, but |michael's looks over padded and root's looks a bit sparse. | |1) what is your root and user path? |2)where do they live? |3)how do i change them for more than the current session |(ie so when i reboot they won't revert)? |I recall trying with 8.0 and not being able to get it to |stick... |-- |-michael- | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Path and KDESU
tazmun wrote: [snip] here..but what does pwd stand for again? And I keep hearing about kdesu is this just something your typing into the console shell from kde window manager. I was wondering if someone could go a bit more into detail on this command and exactly how to use it. Also what the advantage...disadvantage of this might be. [snip] Tazmunpwd = pRINT wORKING dIRECTORY. kdesu is a GUI tool to allow you to run a GUI app as root. The syntax is: kdesu [-c] name_of_executable advantage is that you don't have to log out as user and re-login as root to use certain root-only programs. Disadvantage is none. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Path
Append it to your PATH line in /home/(user)/.bashrc or if you want it in root then change your /root/.bashrc file. -- It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux! In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? Kelley Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Magnus Stenemo wrote: Hello! I want to add /usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin/ to my PATH The shell is bash How do I do?? //Magnus
Re: [newbie] Path
no...you take out yourself.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Victor Parra wrote:
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 23:29:17 -0800
From: Victor Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Path
plaaassse take out of your list
-michael- wrote:
On Thursday 08 February 2001 10:15, you wrote:
On Thursday 08 February 2001 12:23 pm, -michael- wrote:
How do I, "add /usr/bin to my path?"
-michael-
typeecho $PATH to see what your current paths are.
/usr/bin ought'a already be there
but if it isn't ('bout 1/2 way down the page)
http://mandrakeuser.org/admin/ashell3.html
You can also typeexportto see a listing of all your
environment variables, including the path.
Thanks Tom. I thought it was there, just wondered after I would compile every
KDE module it would say add /usr/bin to your $PATH. But it's there.
Re: [newbie] Path
On Thursday 08 February 2001 10:15, you wrote:
On Thursday 08 February 2001 12:23 pm, -michael- wrote:
How do I, "add /usr/bin to my path?"
-michael-
typeecho $PATH to see what your current paths are.
/usr/bin ought'a already be there
but if it isn't ('bout 1/2 way down the page)
http://mandrakeuser.org/admin/ashell3.html
You can also typeexportto see a listing of all your
environment variables, including the path.
Thanks Tom. I thought it was there, just wondered after I would compile every
KDE module it would say add /usr/bin to your $PATH. But it's there.
Re: [newbie] Path Solved
On Thursday 08 February 2001 09:23, you wrote: How do I, "add /usr/bin to my path?" -michael- Twas already there.
Re: [newbie] Path
plaaassse take out of your list
-michael- wrote:
On Thursday 08 February 2001 10:15, you wrote:
On Thursday 08 February 2001 12:23 pm, -michael- wrote:
How do I, "add /usr/bin to my path?"
-michael-
typeecho $PATH to see what your current paths are.
/usr/bin ought'a already be there
but if it isn't ('bout 1/2 way down the page)
http://mandrakeuser.org/admin/ashell3.html
You can also typeexportto see a listing of all your
environment variables, including the path.
Thanks Tom. I thought it was there, just wondered after I would compile every
KDE module it would say add /usr/bin to your $PATH. But it's there.
Re: [newbie] path
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, ryan geer wrote: ive downloaded suns sdk and cant seem to get the path set right. probably because i dont really understand the whole path concept so if you have a good source of information re: paths or more specifically have installed suns free jdk, could you drop me a line? thanks. You have to modify some environement variables in order to have the sun jdk running correctly. I have already done it, and I simply followed the instructions provided in the various README's in the package. But I don't remember exactly how it worked. If you want to avoid problems, you can choose the easy solution and simply install the kaffe package on the mdk CD. It also provides a java environement, but without the $PATH problems. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~ !
Re: [newbie] path
Tommy Kelly wrote: I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the path For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila, I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory. To add the directory to your path, add the following to your .bashrc file, in your home directory: PATH="/root/mozilla:$PATH" ; export PATH Then, at your shell prompt type: . ~/.bashrc That's not always a good idea, depending on what's in ~/.bashrc. If there are only aliases and other benign defintions, then this isn't a problem; however, some people use this startup script for things which could potentially cause problems if resourced, sometimes. One way around that is to use conditional programming, but this should be rarely needed for this file. However, why would a program like mozilla be installed under root's home directory, instead of one of the system bin directories? I'm not familiar with mozilla, except for what I believe is some relationship with netscape; therefore, I'm asking for myself, but also to help this knowledge or the answer to be understood by other people new to mozilla. Is mozilla a separate rpm, or does it come with the netscape RPM(s), or what? Usually, RPMs aren't installed under any user's home directory; although, configuration files and directories often go there, like for the ~/.netscape, ~/.kde, ~/.seyon and other directories. These are only for individual configuration, though. I'm not prepared to deal with mozilla yet and still use netscape 4.05, until finishing the upgrade of my system, or somewhere along this path, but because of the odd nature of installing such executables under home directories, this question may be worthwhile for many newbies. Of course, I'ld also be learning in advance (have definitely fair memory). mike (You only have to do this second step once, and even then only in the xterm or session in which you change the .bashrc file. Any new xterms or logins will do it automatically.) You can then run: mozilla from anywhere. Note that I have removed the inital "./" from the command. If you do type: ./mozilla then your $PATH variable is ignored and you will attempt to run the "mozilla" command from directory "./", that is your current directory. And if no executable of that name can be found in that directory you'll get something like: ./mozilla: Command not found. t
Re: [newbie] path
rich wrote: I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the path For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila, I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory. I don't know if your question's been answered, yet, or not, because I'm ripping through the many emails I have; however, no, you would not like to do that. ./ always means the present working directory. What you would like to do is to be able to simply type mozilla without the ./ or any / or dot. Try this. If mozilla is installed, then this should work. If this doesn't work, then more direction is needed, but will wait for your reply. mike
RE: [newbie] path
add the "PATH=/dirpath/Mozzilla" line to your ".kshrc" file or ".bashrc" file, depending on what shell you run. -Original Message- From: Mike Corbeil [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] path rich wrote: I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the path For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila, I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory. I don't know if your question's been answered, yet, or not, because I'm ripping through the many emails I have; however, no, you would not like to do that. ./ always means the present working directory. What you would like to do is to be able to simply type mozilla without the ./ or any / or dot. Try this. If mozilla is installed, then this should work. If this doesn't work, then more direction is needed, but will wait for your reply. mike
Re: [newbie] path
* rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000416 22:04]: I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the path For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila, I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory. If you type ./mozilla you are saying, "run the executable file mozilla, which you will find in the current directory." So that has nothing directly to do with the path. The path you are talking about is the environment variable $PATH, which gives a sequence of directories to search if no path is given. That is, you type 'mozilla' rather than './mozilla' or '/usr/bin/mozilla' or whatever. It is usually set in shell scripts in /etc/profile, or in the directory /etc/profile.d/ or in the user's home directory in a file like .bashrc ... One note, though. Be careful. Linux will happily let you add a world-writeable directory to the beginning of your path. In that case anyone could add a shell script named 'mozilla' into that directory and when you type mozilla you will run it. If it does whatever it wants to, and then runs the regular mozilla, you probably won't know that someone has hijacked your system. For this reason some recommend using symlinks or typing the full path. They must type faster than I do ;-) -- Jan Wilson _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Community College| |:' Corozal Junior College Corozal Town, Belize | /' Central America Visit our Corozal site |_/ http://www.corozal.com
RE: [newbie] path
Mike, If I just type mozilla, it gives an error.. I am not at the linux box right now, so I can't give the exact error. Thanks, Rich -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Corbeil Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 7:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] path rich wrote: I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the path For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila, I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory. I don't know if your question's been answered, yet, or not, because I'm ripping through the many emails I have; however, no, you would not like to do that. ./ always means the present working directory. What you would like to do is to be able to simply type mozilla without the ./ or any / or dot. Try this. If mozilla is installed, then this should work. If this doesn't work, then more direction is needed, but will wait for your reply. mike
Re: [newbie] path
Pittman, Merle wrote: add the "PATH=/dirpath/Mozzilla" line to your ".kshrc" file or ".bashrc" file, depending on what shell you run. Should not be added to either of those files; it should be added to .bash_profile, which is only sourced upon initial login. .bashrc is sourced every time you open a terminal window and the PATH generally doesn't need to be sourced every time you open a terminal window. It normally only needs to be set once. However, if the person having this trouble wants other users to be able to run mozilla or mozzilla, how ever it's spelled, then this should be added to the system-wide file, which is /etc/profile. The other option is to set it in root's local .bash_profile file and copy the change to the /etc/skel/.bash_profile file. These skel files get copied to each user's account home directory when ever a new user account is created, whereas /etc/profile is executed when ever any user logs in, every time the user logs in, but not every time a terminal window is opened (as for the $HOME/.bashrc file). Nothing will get broken by placing the PATH definition in .bashrc, but the PATH variable is not an item that changes dynamically or anything of the sort; therefore, .bash_profile is the more appropriate of the two files for this, that is, other than for /etc/profile. If you don't want to place the PATH definition in /etc/profile, but still want users to have access to mozilla, then place the definition in root's .bash_profile file and update the one in the /etc/skel directory. If you only want some users to have access to mozilla, but not all users, then you could place the definition in /etc/profile and then add the directory to PATH while using code to exclude the users you don't want to allow access to mozilla. I don't know mozilla; therefore, I don't know the name of the executable. You don't, however, want to include the name of the executable in the PATH. Only directories are specified in PATH. The only other alternative to modifying PATH would be to create an alias. This would leave PATH unchanged and assuming the mozilla executable is installed in /usr/local/bin, say, and this directory is not in PATH, the alias would be alias mozilla='/usr/local/bin/mozilla' If mozilla, however, is in /usr/local/bin and this directory isn't in PATH, then add the directory to your PATH, in the .bash_profile file. .bash_profile and .bashrc have dot's for the first character of the name, to cause these to be normally hidden files. In /etc directory, the files don't have a preceding dot, albeit the files in /etc/skel do, because these are used for creating the skeleton files for the home directories of users, when new user accounts are created. Hence, in /etc (but not /etc/skel) don't put a dot in front of the names of bashrc and profile. I don't know why /etc/profile was used, instead of /etc/bash_profile, but it may be for compatibility with ksh, because ksh also uses profile in /etc, while using .profile in the user home directory and .kshrc instead of .bashrc. Check where the mozilla or mozzilla executable is located. If it's in a system bin directory, then you can add this directory to PATH. If mozzilla or mozilla is under root's home directory, then only make the change to PATH locally to root, so only root has access to it, that is, if that's where the moz* executable is supposed to be installed. If that's not where it's supposed to be installed, then moz* should be reinstalled correctly. Whether or not it's installed from an rpm, you'ld need to look on the cdrom to find out. If it's in an rpm, then it should be under Mandrake/RPMS. You can mount the cdrom and run the find command to find out where the install package is, find /cdrom -name '*oz[z]illa*' or use /mnt/cdrom if you don't have a /cdrom on your configuration. The *'s in the find command are for wildcard searching, and the z with [] indicates that the second z is optional. I'm not sure exactly how it's spelled. Alternatively, to do case insenstive searching, there may be an option for find (you'ld need to look at the man page for find to see), you could run find as find /cdrom | grep -i "moz" If you don't have /cdrom, but do have /mnt/cdrom and would like a shortcut, then create /cdrom as a symbolic link to /mnt/cdrom ln -s /mnt/cdrom /cdrom You need to be logged in as root, or to su to root, to create this symbolic link, because only root has write access in /. mike
Re: [newbie] path
I read this and tried to create a symlink from /usr/bin to my Mozilla directory. But when I run mozilla I get the message 'run-mozilla.sh: no such file or directory'. This happens even if I create symlinks to run-mozilla.sh as well. What have I done wrong? Dave Jan Wilson wrote: * rich [000416 22:04]: I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the path For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila, I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory. If you type ./mozilla you are saying, "run the executable file mozilla, which you will find in the current directory." So that has nothing directly to do with the path. The path you are talking about is the environment variable $PATH, which gives a sequence of directories to search if no path is given. That is, you type 'mozilla' rather than './mozilla' or '/usr/bin/mozilla' or whatever. It is usually set in shell scripts in /etc/profile, or in the directory /etc/profile.d/ or in the user's home directory in a file like .bashrc ... One note, though. Be careful. Linux will happily let you add a world-writeable directory to the beginning of your path. In that case anyone could add a shell script named 'mozilla' into that directory and when you type mozilla you will run it. If it does whatever it wants to, and then runs the regular mozilla, you probably won't know that someone has hijacked your system. For this reason some recommend using symlinks or typing the full path. They must type faster than I do ;-) -- Jan Wilson _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Community College| |:' Corozal Junior College Corozal Town, Belize | /' Central America Visit our Corozal site |_/ http://www.corozal.com
Re: [newbie] path
David Hugh-Jones wrote:
I read this and tried to create a symlink from /usr/bin to my Mozilla
directory. But when I run mozilla I get the message 'run-mozilla.sh: no
such file or directory'. This happens even if I create symlinks to
run-mozilla.sh as well. What have I done wrong?
Where is your mozilla executable? Provide an explicit directory listing. Go to the
directory where mozilla is and do the following:
pwd junk 21
ls -l *mozilla*junk 21
Then send the contents of this file.
Also, tell us what user account you're trying to do this from, root or some other
user.
Did you check using rpm? Don't do this using "run-mozilla.sh". Use rpm with the
name of the package, minus the .i386.rpm or .{[no]arch}.rpm filename extension,
otherwise you'ld need to add the -p query option.
You might want to include the output from this rpm test.
rpm -qil mozilla* junk 21
Am not sure if you need to say 21 or 21 for the commands after the pwd one.
Try 21 and if this ends up obliterating prior text in the file, then start over
with 21. I just did a test and the 21 worked across the board.
mike
Re: [newbie] path
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, rich wrote: I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the path For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila, I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory. put/add it on your ~/.bashrc file for example, alias mozz='/usr/local/share/mozzila/mozzila' logout and re-login hope it works, i havent try mozzila yet -- Rib Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.
