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