Michael Klinosky wrote: > Hello. > I installed Fedora 7 on one of my machines. In setting it up, I'm trying > out what I've learned, and expand my knowledge. > > One application that I use (BOINC, a distributed processing system) has > some help pages off-site. The person states that a dir '$HOME/bin' > should exist; if not, it should be created. (Btw, I didn't know about > this dir until now.) > > I see that Fedora anticipates this (it was in the path already). > However, I don't understand why it's not hidden (i.e. '.bin'). Is this > normal? > Yes, it is normal. Why would you want to hide it? this is where you would also put any scripts you create for your own use. You can also install private binary programs here. There is one catch - if you have /home on its own partition, it can be mounted with the noexec option, and then the programs and scripts in ~/bin will not be executable. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
