basic question -linux path..(/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin)

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 08:17, bruce wrote:
> paul,
>
> when i do an
>  #echo $PATH
> /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/
>b
> in:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_02/bin:/opt/condo
>r -6.6.6/sbin:/opt/condor-6.6.6/bin:/root/bin
>
> which says that i have both '/usr/local/bin' and '/usr/bin'.
>
> when i do
>  #mysql, i get
> -bash: /usr/local/bin/mysql: No such file or directory

That is funny, it seems that there is a script under /usr/local/bin called 
'mysql', which isn't really a mysql binary that tries to run. And the order 
path on your $PATH variable is also strange, unless you change it yourself.

Try to type 'which mysql', you should get a file with a complete path. Then do 
an 'ls -lah' on that file, or in a single line, type the following in 
console:

$> ls -lah `which mysql`

Notice the backticks  (it's the key left of 1), they are NOT quote.

RDB

-- 
Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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