Hi!

In Fedora core 2, I got following error when I only logged in as "root".
I got following messages.

-bash: export: `=': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/
bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_05/usr/jav
a/j2sdk1.4.2_05': not a valid identifier

And then When I tried bash command, "ls", I got following error

"-bash: ls: command not found"

I think all bash commands are having problems.
However, the other user ids seem fine for the commands.

When I typed "echo $PATH"
I got "/opt/manage/ant-1.6.2/bin:/opt/manage/maven-1.0/bin"

So, I tried "set PATH=$PATH:/bin"
Same results I got.
Still bash commands are not working in "root"

I am sorry for the easy question.
But, please help me.
I really appreciate it.

are you running bash shell for root? check /etc/passwd,
do you have csh (or any other shell) specific code in .login?

perhaps of some help!

-ms

If it's not the wrong shell as mk suggested, my suspicion
would be that you have stuffed up your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_login
or ~/.profile - you get the idea) ...



Cheers,
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