RE: bash: startx: command not found ????

[Uncle Meat <kcsmart worldinter net>]

On 28-Aug-99 Doug Graham opined:
> My xWindows won't start. This is the error message I get -- bash:
> startx:
> command not found
> 
> Here's what I did before this, when my xWindows was working fine.
> 
> When I setup the Blackdown JDK I added the path to my profile file in
> /etc.
> I used vi to add ;/usr/local/jdk/bin to the end of the path.  Then I
> saved
> the file with !wq.

If it was as shown, it won't work and _MAY_ be what caused the problem:

        :/usr/local/jdk/bin

is totally different from:

        ;/usr/local/jdk/bin

Also, it needs to be added onto the end of an existing PATH= statement
or added as:

        PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/jdk/bin

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