enviroment variables

cphase · 11-29-2004, 03:51 PM

I hope this is the correct place to ask this, while fooling around with LFS I inadvertantly changed my enviroment, now I can nolonger get into my home dir or run X. Is tere a way to reset my enviroment variables? TKS in advance

david_ross · 11-29-2004, 03:56 PM

How did you change them? If you just did it for your current session then just logout and back in again.

XavierP · 11-29-2004, 03:58 PM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Linux From Scratch and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

cphase · 11-29-2004, 04:07 PM

I used the cat command that is in the setup for LFS but I was not in that dir so now my Slack env is changed and I cant get into my home dir or run X.

cphase · 11-29-2004, 04:11 PM

Below are the commands I issued that set the env:

cat > ~/.bash_profile << "EOF"
exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash
EOF

t > ~/.bashrc << "EOF"
set +h
umask 022
LFS=/mnt/lfs
LC_ALL=POSIX
PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
export LFS LC_ALL PATH
EOF

cphase · 11-29-2004, 08:03 PM

Doesn't look like moving this post to LFS forum is getting very much exposure!

tvburger · 11-30-2004, 01:00 PM

Normally your bash configured by the .bashrc file.

Probably your PATH is not correct to find the startx|xdm|whateverx program. Please send your .bashrc of your user (probably ~/.bashrc) and the output of "set" bash-builtin.

= Tom

Mr.McCormick · 01-19-2005, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cphase
Below are the commands I issued that set the env:

cat > ~/.bash_profile << "EOF"
exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash
EOF

t > ~/.bashrc << "EOF"
set +h
umask 022
LFS=/mnt/lfs
LC_ALL=POSIX
PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
export LFS LC_ALL PATH
EOF

i know this is a little old but this is your problem change you .bashrc file to read
...
PATH=/tools/bin:$PATH
...
when you set path it resets the env var
and you should use another user than your main so you dont mess with the main user