Colleen Beamer wrote: > I can log in, but every time I issue a command, I get told that it's > not found. For instance, when I ran startx, it couldn't find the > command. When I ran ls, it couldn't find the command. I even tried > entering a path to the command, like /usr/bin/ls and /bin/ls, but to > no avail. > > Today, I added a program which I installed via tarball and edited my > .bash profile to make the permanent addition to my path. Then, I > rebooted and now, no commands will work. Hi Colleen, It sounds as if your $PATH is hosed. Can you paste the relevant info from your .bash_profile. On a long shot, did you by chance do something like... "export PATH=/path/to/new/program" ...when you should've done something like... "export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/new/program"? -j -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> "If it's not on fire, then it's a software problem."
