From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 3:55:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D915A37B400 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 03:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 24850 invoked by uid 100); 13 Feb 2002 11:55:25 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15466.21548.679394.975027@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 05:55:24 -0600 To: "Beatty, Simon" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 - a question regarding a directory In-Reply-To: <50678224@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This probably belongs on newbies@freebsd.org, but we'll let that pass. Beatty, Simon types: > Firstly may I state that I am a newcomer to FreeBSD, I have started to work > through the excellent book 'FreeBSD An Open-Source System for Your PC' by > Annelise Anderson. This book comes with version 4.2. I have recently > purchased a boxed set of version 4.4 dated September 2001. Having followed > the installation instructions I have found the set-up to be seamless and > very easy - well done. I have come across my first 'bug' (?) however. Congratulations, and welcome to the coolest OS on earth. > In the book on pages 103/104 it shows how to do the command 'echo $PATH'. I > get the same answer in book except that obviously the last directory in the > path is for my local user, i.e. /usr/home/simon/bin. On page 104 it goes > onto say that if you do the command 'cd bin' you will be switched into the > local 'bin' directory. I get 'NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY'. When I 'cd' the > full directory path I still get the same error message? I've not read Annelise's book, but does that directory exist? You can just do an "ls" after you log in, and if you don't see "bin", then it doesn't. If so, you'll need to create it with "mkdir bin". http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message