On Friday 31 March 2006 23:15, Cody Grosskopf wrote: > I know that i'm semi retarted but i cannot get my .profile to work > correctly as root. When i try to add /var/lib/install/usr/sbin and those > directories to my .profile and then i type export $PATH i get this error > export: 4: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin: bad variable name thats not even > the end of the value of PATH either. Any ideas? You export the contents of the variable PATH if you export $PATH But you want to export the variable PATH so export PATH will do the trick No need to be semi retarted : Just read a shell manual .. -- groetjes Frank
