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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news.uni-mainz.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help on repairing Shell acct on a bsd machine Date: 2 Jan 1996 22:39:44 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4ccc7g$gsc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4c98v5$t1b@news.iii.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 drgrant@kilrah.iii.net writes: > I currently have a shell account on a bsd machine, and I think the > path got messed up or something because none of the local programs > work; all I get is "Command not found" etc..... I know there's a way > to set paths, but not sure how... For Bourne-like shells: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin; export PATH For csh-like shells setenv PATH /bin:/usr/bin (or, functionally equivalent:) set path = ( /bin /usr/bin ) This should get you up&running to the point where you can use the `man' command again. >:-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)