For the record, I think your question was perfectly reasonable for this forum. It is related to git installation/configuration on a particular OS. This group doesn't get much traffic, as it is--if we tell people to go elsewhere to solve their problems, it will just continue to be a ghost town.
Here are some more general pointers (hopefully for the benefit of all): It's usually easier to configure software in CentOS via yum, the package manager. CentOS 5 doesn't have a yum package for git (CentOS 5 is pretty old, you should consider upgrading to 6 at some point!), but there are people who have kindly set up git packages for CentOS 5, such as: http://www.webtatic.com/news/2011/09/latest-updates-git-1-7-6-1-httpd-2-2-20-php-5-3-8-nginx-1-0-6/ There are a couple of great books online for git specifically: http://book.git-scm.com/ http://book.git-scm.com/2_installing_git.html (this contains the proper "from source" installation commands with the prefix: $ make prefix=/usr all ;# as yourself $ make prefix=/usr install ;# as root) And there's "pro git": http://progit.org/book/ , written by one of the guys at github. I learned a lot reading through the branching sections. You should definitely set up a user account to push with via SSH. It's possible this server isn't in the wild, which is fine, but if it is accessible by the internet, I highly recommend disabling root ssh access all together. See the section on disabling root SSH access in CentOS 5 here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s2-wstation-privileges-noroot.html Happy git-ing. Wes On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Paul Hollyer <p...@hollyer.me.uk> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 3:21:04 PM UTC+1, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: >> >> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:46:12 -0700 (PDT) >> Paul Hollyer <p...@hollyer.me.uk> wrote: >> >> > > env $PATH >> > > to see what your path looks like. >> [...] >> > Thanks for the quick replies, here is the result of env $PATH: >> > >> > env: >> > /root/local/bin:/usr/kerberos/**sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/** >> local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/**> >> > sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/rvm/bin:**/root/bin: No such file or directory >> > >> > I assumed re-installing git would make it add the required paths >> > where necessary again if they had been broken. >> Installing something by `make install` never touches the environment >> (and for good). >> >> > Can you help me fix this? >> > >> > Git is at /usr/local/src I think, >> Very improbable. >> Possibly you unrolled the Git source tarball there >> > I did. > > >> , but when you did >> ./configure >> it probably picked /usr/local as its "installation prefix", >> so supposedly you do have main Git binary under /usr/local/bin, and >> that's what you're supposed to add to your PATH. >> >> > so how do I add this to the search path? >> The answer is "it depends". >> >> The most correct approach (to me) is to find binary package(s) for Git >> matching your OS (and its version), and install them. This gives you >> two benefits: >> 1) Git will be installed in a well-known place, where it will be >> accessible without messing with the user's environment. >> 2) You will have less problems when uninstalling or upgrading Git later, >> as this will be routinely carried out by the package manager. >> >> If you insist on building Git from the source, there are two ways: >> 1) Run `./configure --help` and see what it needs to install Git into >> the standard hierarchy, that is, under /usr. >> Usually this is --prefix=/usr >> 2) Install as-is, but notice where the files are installed. >> Just run `make install >/tmp/log` and inspect the generated log file >> to see where the files have been installed. >> > This is what I did, following a recipe provided by someone using Git and > Centos. I didn't think, this morning, when running make install, to pipe or > > (append?) the output to a log file. These are the sort of common > techniques that are yet to come naturally for me. > > > >> In the latter case you might have to fix the environment *of the user >> under which account Git will run.* This is important: from the output >> you shown us, it follows that you run this command as root. It's >> highly unlikely you're pushing as root as well (if you're a sensible >> person at least), >> > I'm not a sensible person, I need to fix this. > > >> and you have to tweak either the global environment >> or the environment of the mentioned user. >> How to do that depends on the shell which is spawned by SSH on the >> server when you push. Usually it's the same as the user's login shell >> (the one used for interactive logins). >> The config file to tweak depends on the shell. >> For bash this will be >> ~/.bashrc >> and you'll have to add to it something like >> export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin" >> >> > Sorry if it's a basic linux question, but am learning by doing, and >> > fixing....... >> >> As you can see, you'll have to get a book on Unix and read it as the >> question being discussed has little to do with Git. >> You ccan also get help on relevant resources such as news groups >> or http://stackoverflow.com >> > I have recently completed an introductory Linux course with the OU (about > £275 I think it was), and am looking to do more when the new term starts in > August/September. I'm not a free-loader expecting you to give me all the > answers. 99% of the time I will try and find a solution to a problem > myself, it's just that due to time contraints today, and the fact that I > didn't know if it was a Linux issue or a Git installation that had become > corrupted, that I just asked the question first - hoping to be pointed in a > direction where I could find the answers. > > I'm in the process of trying to learn a lot of stuff myself, I don't have > anyone I can discuss problems with face to face, so Google Groups is my > only real support network. > > Thanks to everyone who has posted, I'll make the necessary changes to my > server tonight. > > BW > > Paul > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/AOkkoAblCC8J. > > To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. 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