Author: George Sobala
Date: 07:45:04 07/25/04
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On July 25, 2004 at 09:11:06, Tord Romstad wrote:
>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
If that is what your .profile says then it SHOULD work PROVIDED you have started
up a new shell (Terminal) since fink was installed!
If you are still running the same Terminal window from yesterday, please close
it and start up a new one! The .profile file is only read when a new Terminal is
opened.
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