[Pan-users] Re: Pan not emailing me

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:34:56 -0600, Gerald L wrote:

> Beartooth wrote:

>>      I don't have any /home/btth/bin, nor even a /home/btth/.bin; do I
>> just start with "mkdir bin"? Or does some wrinkle in Fedora mean I have
>> to move it from /home/btth to some place like /usr/bin? Or do I just
>> leave it where it is, without any bin directory? Or what? Where is
>> Fedora's version of Pan going to look for it??
 
 
> You can actually put it anywhere you want. It is just fairly common
> housekeeping practice to create a /home/username/bin directory as a
> place to put executable files that you create -- as opposed to
> executables that are installed by the system into /usr/bin, /usr/sbin,
> /bin, etc. ...

        Hmmm ... I wouldn't bet on knowing a line of code if it bit me; 
but I certainly download a lot of executables -- mostly stuff like Opera 
that's not in my distro. Is there reason to put that there?

> Some people simply place self-created executables into /usr/local/bin
> because that should already exist but it is world-readable so
> executables intended for a single user are more commonly put somewhere
> in that user's /home directory.
> 
> So, yes:
> 
> mkdir /home/btth/bin
> mv /home/btth/alpine_helper.pl /home/btth/bin/

        OK, I did both of those.

> You may also want to check your /home/btth/.bash_profile to be certain
> it includes a stanza like this somewhere (mine is at the bottom):
> 
> # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d ~/bin
> ] ; then
>      PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
> fi

        Mine has this : 
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi
        Is that another form of the same thing? Or do I just add the PATH 
lines below it?
 
> That will ensure you can use any executables you drop into your
> /home/btth/bin directory without having to type the full path.

        Verr-rr-rry intterr-rr-rresssttingg. .bash_profile turns out to 
be one of those things somebody walked me through once, long ago and far 
away, and then I kept not being able to find again. 

        It now has a bunch of stuff at the bottom that's been out of date 
for years -- the mail accounts haven't existed for at least two or three. 
How much of the following should I just delete? (The last, very long, 
alias is actually all one line, from pine= to pinerc and the quotes.) 
Just the dead aliasses? Everything from the # on down? 

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export PATH
unset USERNAME
alias Adelpine='/usr/bin/pine'
alias delpine='/usr/bin/pine'
alias pine='/usr/bin/pine -p "{Teton.vresl.com/novalidate-cert/
user=khnhms}remote_pinerc"'

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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.