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Where did yopu alter it? .profile? .bash_profile?

The path is typically set in the /etc/profile as a start and then modified in the user's .profile

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PATH=$QTDIR/bin:/usr/lib/qt3/lib/
is the line that messed you up.

You set your path to be only 2 directories.

The path is set with : as the delimiter. It is parsed from left to right. When you run a command, the system looks in the first directoy, not found? then it looks in the second one specified, etc etc. If it can not find the command, it will say "Not found"

I am sure you can run /bin/ls and it will run fine.

If you just tyoped this, it should not be retained if you log off and on again. If you wrote it in a file that is read everytime you log in, that is anbother story.

You can always enter this in your .profile (.bash_profile in redhat)
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin

Of course you may need to add or subract some directories off of this. Oh yeah, you can add your qt path in there just do not forget the : between the different directory structures.

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If you make a change to your enviroment startup files (.profile or .bash_profile) whichever the case may be, you must log off and log back on, or source the file as such

In your home dir execute
. ./profile or . ./.bash_profile

It is probably best to make sure that PATH variable is exported.

In the same file look for a line that reads
export PATH
if it is not there, enter it in there.

I am not sure if Mandrake reads the .profile or the .bash_profile. Just see which one is in your directory

/bin/ls -a