Erik, Never mind all that. If you're using bash then you can't "source /sw/bin/init.sh". source is a c shell function. The equivilent in bourne shell is a period. So what you want is . /sw/bin/init.sh
Paul >>> Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/24/02 20:25 PM >>> Paul, Thank you, but yes, I use /sw/bin/bash as my default shell, though. But there is something related: I noticed that whenever I execute /usr/bin/which and it fails to find the file, it would say "no foo in /sw/bin /sw/sbin /sw/bin /sw/sbin /usr/bin /bin /Users/eprice/bin (etc)". But whenever I did "echo $PATH", the output was as expected: /sw/bin /sw/sbin /usr/bin /bin /Users/eprice/bin (etc)". Note that "which" is checking /sw/bin and /sw/sbin twice for the file, according to this error message. So, reading the man page, I discovered that /usr/bin/which checks the .cshrc file for $PATH information. I thought this was strange, that /usr/bin/which would be so shell-specific like that (don't most utilities just check for a standard environment variable, like $PATH ?). This led me to take a look in my .cshrc. I haven't used my .cshrc since I first installed Fink, because of course why use tcsh when you can have bash? But that's beside the point. It turns out that I still had "source /sw/bin/init.csh" in my .cshrc file. Because of this, I suspect that /usr/bin/which was checking the .cshrc, finding the reference to /sw/bin/init.csh, and executing it somehow, in effect causing /sw/bin and /sw/sbin to be searched TWICE. I don't know much about how the /usr/bin/which utility works, but I thought that this was interesting -- for those of you who have switched to another shell as your default, but still have a ".cshrc" file sitting in your home directory, you may wish to rename it or comment out the "source /sw/bin/init.csh". It doesn't do any harm to have /usr/bin/which search through /sw/bin and /sw/sbin twice but if you're OCD like I am then that kind of thing bothers you and you probably want to do something about it. On the flip side, I still haven't figured out what may have taken /usr/sbin and /sbin out of my default $PATH. I checked the Fink init script that I use (I source /sw/bin/init.sh from my ~/.bash_profile), and that doesn't have any effect. But on the other hand, I don't recall EVER manually changing my $PATH variable or running any other system startup scripts that do. What file is used by Darwin as the equivalent of /etc/profile (for system-wide default shell configuration)? Cheers, Erik PS: Paul, hope you don't mind I 'listed' this response, I thought others could benefit. On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Paul Lieberman wrote: > Erik, > That would be a problem. If your shell is the default tcsh then you > want to > source /sw/bin/init.csh > init.sh is for bash, sh or other Bourne shells. > > Paul _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
