James Harrison wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:39 -0300, Pedro Ferreira wrote:
>> I have done something wrong with a bashrc file. I added a line at the
>> end of the file:
>> export PATH=/home/.../:$ PATH
>>
>> and apparently that worked fine, I could run that application from
>> everywhere. But when I logged out and tryed to log in again, I
>> couldn't. There was that "less than 10 seconds session" warning.
>> Anybody knows how I should modify  the file and which file should I
>> modify? Someone told me to modify the ".bashrc" file, but that does
>> not exis on my pc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>             Pedro Ferreira.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not understanding how your situation is possible. How did you modify
> the .bashrc file to edit your $path if you don't have a .bashrc file?

That's not what he said.

The .bashrc file is in the user's home directory.

I generally create ~/bin for users that matter, and put their private 
executables in there.

These days, that's added to users' PATH automatically.

> 
> The command shown above shouldn't work as typed; it does pre-pend to
> $path it prepends to $ and then has the word PATH in there. Is that just
> a typo?

I'm doubtful about those dots too.


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