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by **Jason Rhode** » Mon, 07 Feb 2000 04:00:00

I get the following error message when I login as a non-root user
[: too many arguments

Some things work fine, and others don't. For instance, I can type startx to
get xwindows running, but netscape and sound don't work. They do work when I
log in as root.
Can you offer any suggestions?
Jason

by **Christia** » Mon, 07 Feb 2000 04:00:00

Check ".bashrc", ".bash_profile" or ".profile" (not sure for the last
one with bash) on your homedir.

Christian

> I get the following error message when I login as a non-root user
> [: too many arguments

> Some things work fine, and others don't. For instance, I can type startx to
> get xwindows running, but netscape and sound don't work. They do work when I
> log in as root.
> Can you offer any suggestions?
> Jason

by **Iqbal Husain Thake** » Tue, 08 Feb 2000 04:00:00

hi,

i had this problem too ... it was solved because it looks like a permissions
problem to me ... do an echo $PATH and then check if all the paths listed have
the execute permission to them ... most probably the execute permission is not
there in the /usr/bin directory ... u can do a "chmod -R +x /usr/bin" and that
should work fine ... incidentally just to be sure ... check permissions for all
the paths listed in ur .bashrc and .bash_profile and also the ones that r there
by default ...

ciao .. best of luck !!

Iqbal.

> I get the following error message when I login as a non-root user
> [: too many arguments

> Some things work fine, and others don't. For instance, I can type startx to
> get xwindows running, but netscape and sound don't work. They do work when I
> log in as root.
> Can you offer any suggestions?
> Jason

by **Jason Rhode** » Tue, 08 Feb 2000 04:00:00

I tried this and it didn't seem to change anything. I did
chmod -R +x /usr/bin
for each directory in my path as shown by "echo $PATH" (changing the
directory name in the above statement, of course). In a few cases I didn't
have premission to do that, so I did it as root instead. I don't have any
paths listed in .bashrc and I checked the ones in .bash_profile as above.
What else could be going wrong?
Thanks,

Jason

> hi,

> i had this problem too ... it was solved because it looks like a
permissions
> problem to me ... do an echo $PATH and then check if all the paths listed
have
> the execute permission to them ... most probably the execute permission is
not
> there in the /usr/bin directory ... u can do a "chmod -R +x /usr/bin" and
that
> should work fine ... incidentally just to be sure ... check permissions
for all
> the paths listed in ur .bashrc and .bash_profile and also the ones that r
there
> by default ...

> ciao .. best of luck !!

> Iqbal.

> > I get the following error message when I login as a non-root user
> > [: too many arguments

> > Some things work fine, and others don't. For instance, I can type
startx to
> > get xwindows running, but netscape and sound don't work. They do work
when I
> > log in as root.
> > Can you offer any suggestions?
> > Jason

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