Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:57:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Jason Taylor <jason@kanda.com> To: "Beatty, Simon" <Simon.Beatty@northernrock.co.uk> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 - a question regarding a directory Message-ID: <20020213125404.Q50421-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> In-Reply-To: <4F213CE9D4A5D411B45D00508B6D701E0153B19B@sv_nt_gos41>
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Beatty, Simon wrote: > Firstly may I state that I am a newcomer to FreeBSD, I have started to work > through the excellent book 'FreeBSD An Open-Source System for Your PC' by > Annelise Anderson. This book comes with version 4.2. I have recently > purchased a boxed set of version 4.4 dated September 2001. Having followed > the installation instructions I have found the set-up to be seamless and > very easy - well done. I have come across my first 'bug' (?) however. > > In the book on pages 103/104 it shows how to do the command 'echo $PATH'. I > get the same answer in book except that obviously the last directory in the > path is for my local user, i.e. /usr/home/simon/bin. On page 104 it goes > onto say that if you do the command 'cd bin' you will be switched into the > local 'bin' directory. I get 'NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY'. When I 'cd' the > full directory path I still get the same error message? > > Have I done anything wrong in the set-up? Is this a known bug? Are you able > to give me manual instruction to fix this little problem? Local users bin directories are not created automatically. If you create the directory then things will follow as per your book. mkdir ~/bin Jason. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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