Comments on: Setting Mac / Unix Environment Variables – Adding Executables to the System Path

By: Brooks

Brooks — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:25:15 +0000

@Brooks Hanes – Good to know there are others out there. ;-) My old man was huge fan of the Orioles Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson.

By: brooks hanes

brooks hanes — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:01:25 +0000

thanks Brooks for the post. It is weird, I have never, ever seen another Brooks online.

Thanks again, was glad to find this post about environ vars as I am setting up CakePHP console.

Brooks

By: sridevi

sridevi — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:37:15 +0000

Do we have seperate method for setting the environment in windowsXP. I am having this particular problem when in run the functiom mpd…
??? Error using ==> bookread at 26
Can’t open file [tempbook.bin]

Error in ==> mpd at 35
varargout{1} = bookread(‘tempbook.bin’);

Error in ==> final_sim_with_noise at 75
[Book ,residual ,decay] = mpd ( y, 10 ,’D')
Can someone help, please… we need it to complete our project. thank you….

By: chris

chris — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:03:39 +0000

adding the path via the instructions in comment #1 will wipe out any previous custom settings you may have in your .profile file

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Linda Octa » Blog Archive » MAC Java Environment Variable — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:23:49 +0000

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By: John Finch

John Finch — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:44:03 +0000

I have seen this permission problem with Leopard. I found that I could log in using sudo via the X11 terminal.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:47:54 +0000

Oops, should have mentioned i’m using leopard, if that makes a difference.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:45:50 +0000

Hey, thanks for this note. i just bought a new mbp and am struggling … I’m trying to install mit scheme so i can work through sicp, but can’t mv the downloaded file into /usr/local/ through the terminal:

Jeffs-Computer:~ jeff$ mv ./mit-scheme-20070909-ix86-apple-darwin.tar.gz /usr/local/mit.tar.gz
mv: rename ./mit-scheme-20070909-ix86-apple-darwin.tar.gz to /usr/local/mit.tar.gz: Permission denied

i enabled root and try sudo, which doesn’t move the file (?):

Jeffs-Computer:~ jeff$ sudo mv ./mit-scheme-20070909-ix86-apple-darwin.tar.gz /usr/local/mit.tar.gz
WARNING: [... blah blah don't use sudo ...]
Password:
Jeffs-Computer:~ jeff$ ls /usr/local/
OpenSourceLicenses OpenSourceVersions

so, i’m not sure wassup, or if it’s really necessary for me to put the bin in /usr/local/ …

any ideas?

By: Brooks

Brooks — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:42:56 +0000

Hmm, I’m not really sure what your issue is, but I’d probably try to make sure swfmill is set up as unix executable.

You’ll need to cd to the directory where swfmill is located and then type the following in bash:

chmod 777 swfmill

Hopefully that does the trick for you.

By: Jake Brumble

Jake Brumble — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:41:18 +0000

Sorry I couldn’t find a more appropriate place to ask my lame rookie question

swfmill was working with simple tests the first time I tried it, now I am getting errors seeming to indicate no modify/create permission, I have read/write permit for files and folder

/millfolder/swfmill swf2xml /millfolder/test1.swf

outputs good result to terminal

/millfolder/swfmill swf2xml /millfolder/test1.swf|/millfolder/test1.xml

if test1.xml exists:
-bash: /millfolder/test1.xml: Permission denied

if test1.xml does not exists:
-bash: /millfolder/test1.xml: No such file or directory

By: Brooks

Brooks — Thu, 25 May 2006 05:52:45 +0000

Very cool–if only I’d known a couple of days ago.

By: erixtekila

erixtekila — Wed, 24 May 2006 20:51:26 +0000

You’d do it in your home foldre instead.
That do not need admin privileges.
cat > ~/.profile
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/
[Control-C]
That’s all.

No need to reference all the plain reference, paths suffice here.