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underpenguin

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Registered: 2007-02-01

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Wierd....$PATH Screwed up [SOLVED].

Hi,
I got up this morning (err...afternoon) to find that my netcfg2 command resulted in "command not found" etc. After some looking around, i saw that my $PATH variable had only a few entries, and was ended with a "." I've added a few back, but I want to know what caused this and how I can fix it. Also, I added some stuff like /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, but I can't find where ifconfig lives. Can someone let me know, or better yet give me a command to find it (looking for a file named x and printing out the path(s)). Thank you

Last edited by underpenguin (2008-01-11 05:12:16)

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

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Re: Wierd....$PATH Screwed up [SOLVED].

ifconfig is in /sbin.  You can find it with "find / -name ifconfig", although there might be a better way.  Finding stuff from / can take a while.

Cerebral

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Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: Wierd....$PATH Screwed up [SOLVED].

$ sudo updatedb
$ locate ifconfig

underpenguin

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Re: Wierd....$PATH Screwed up [SOLVED].

Thanks,

Anyone know what caused the problem / permanent solution besides adding & exporting to PATH every time I boot?

Cerebral

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Re: Wierd....$PATH Screwed up [SOLVED].

look in your ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile to see if any of those are setting your path

iphitus

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Re: Wierd....$PATH Screwed up [SOLVED].

To find executables, there's also "whereis ifconfig"

phrakture

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Re: Wierd....$PATH Screwed up [SOLVED].

Did you delete /etc/profile?

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underpenguin

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Re: Wierd....$PATH Screwed up [SOLVED].

I may have, is there supposed to be a file called /etc/profile  ? I have a folder /etc/profile.d/ and a /etc/bash.profile  Can someone post theirs so i have something to work off of if this indeed is the problem?

Thank you

synorgy

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Re: Wierd....$PATH Screwed up [SOLVED].

Contents of my /etc/profile

#
# /etc/profile
#
export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin"

export MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man"
export LESSCHARSET="latin1"
export INPUTRC="/etc/inputrc"
export LESS="-R"

export LC_COLLATE="C"

export COLUMNS LINES

export PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
export PS2='> '

umask 022

if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" -o "$TERM" = "xterm-color" -o "$TERM" = "rxvt" -o "$TERM" = "xterm-xfree86" ]; then
  PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
fi

# load profiles from /etc/profile.d
#  (to disable a profile, just remove execute permission on it)
if [ `ls -A1 /etc/profile.d/ | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then
  for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
    if [ -x $profile ]; then
      . $profile
    fi
  done
  unset profile
fi

#End of File

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underpenguin

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Re: Wierd....$PATH Screwed up [SOLVED].

Thanks very much synorgy for your profile and phrakture for your (as usual) uncanny ability to fix everything. [SOLVED]!