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Subject: Re: Still Frustrated!

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 06:11:06 07/25/04

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On July 25, 2004 at 08:30:32, Eric Jensen wrote:

>/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
>OK
>echo $SHELL
>/bin/bash
>cd
>pico .profile
>
>.profile already contains the line . /sw/bin/init.sh so I try to merely hit
>return and then save and exit. It reads "file cannot be opened for writing" and
>says that my changes will be lost if I merely exit.

The following incarnation should give you write permission to the file:

chmod u+w .profile

Like many Unix commands, it might look a bit cryptic.  'chmod' is probably an
abbreviation for "change mode" or something like that. 'u+w' means that you
want to add ('+') write ('w') permission for the user ('u') who owns the file
(that is, for yourself).

>It does tell me when I use pathsetup that it appears my settings are correct...
>but that can't be. I think you are right that there is some problem w/ the
>.profile but I don't know how to get past the write protection.

What output do you get if you type 'echo $PATH' on the command line?

Tord




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