[maemo-users] [maemo-users] .profile

From: Frank f.w.kooistra at ocelot.nl
Date: Tue Apr 4 11:29:12 EEST 2006
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

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