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:
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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