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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers PATH problem Post 303024375 by MuntyScrunt on Sunday 7th of October 2018 11:54:29 AM
Old 10-07-2018
PATH problem
For the sake of not going insane and not buggering a load of needed system stuff, I have created a dir /mybin. (This is a Debian system.)

I have then edited the /etc/profile and /etc/login.defs files and added :/mybin to all of the path variables. I have the file /mybin/mtp for testing which has a correct python hashbang.


This almost works perfectly, however from my home dir /home/Bill, this happens:

Code:
Bill# mtp   -   output perfect

Bill# sudo su
    # mtp   -   output perfect

Bill# sudo mtp   -   command not found

So where the blinking bloomery else do I have to modify the path variables?

Thanks.
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-07-2018 at 01:25 PM..
 

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snd

SND(1)							      General Commands Manual							    SND(1)

NAME

       snd - a sound editor

SYNOPSIS

       snd [-l FILE] [-p DIR] [-v] [-h] [-notebook] [-separate] [-noglob] [-noinit] [--help] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       Snd is a sound editor.

       Snd  is free software.  It's available as source, prebuilt images, and rpm packages at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/ and ftp://ccrma-ftp.stan-
       ford.edu/pub/Lisp/.  The 'official' version is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/snd/.

USAGE

       snd oboe.snd loads oboe.snd into Snd.

OPTIONS

       -l file
	      Load extension language code in file.

       -p dir Preload sound files found in directory dir.

       -noglob
	      Don't load any global configuration files.

       -noinit
	      Don't load any initialization files (~/.snd et al).

       -nogtkrc
	      Don't look for any gtkrc stuff.

       --help Give some help.

       --version
	      Describe current Snd.

FILES

       ~/.snd a file that can contain local customization code.

AUTHORS

       Bill Schottstaedt <bil@ccrma.stanford.edu> Michael Scholz Kjetil Matheussen with many generous far-flung helpers.

4.13								    April 2001								    SND(1)
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