Re: bash: a: command not found

["Rick L. Mantooth" <rickdman cyberramp net>]

Kayvan,
If it is "system wide" and sounds like it is,
I'd fire up and xterm and tail -f /var/log/xdm-error.log
and then use another xterm to "telnet localhost" and log in to
see if I got the "bash: a: command not found". If so, you need to
look in /etc/profile.

If not, look in the /etc/X11/xdm/ tree for a broken script
or command in one of those files.

prompt# grep "a " *
               ^ is a SPACE

should give you some output.

Sounds like a "mis-typed alias" line or a line with an "a " 
(a space anything else) in it. [Make sense?]

Rick

On 31 Dec 1998, Kayvan Aghaiepour Sylvan wrote:

> Does anyone know what the plethora of these lines in my xdm-error.log are?
> 
>     bash: a: command not found
>     bash: a: command not found
>     bash: a: command not found
> 
> I'm using an entirely unmodified 5.2 XDM configuration.
> 
> A new line is added everytime a user logs into the machine using XDM.
> 
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