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. -- Cheers John -- spambait [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)