End User Installation/Setup Procedures

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Before the scripts can be run, each user must perform the following, one time, installation steps. 

 

 

1.Add the net-sense/bin directory, where the system administrator installed the scripts (e.g. /usr/local/net-sense/bin), to your path.  This is done by modifying the PATH variable in each users $HOME/.profile file. Issue the command env | grep “^PATH” to confirm.

 

Example (Existing entry in .profile)

PATH=/usr/sbin

export PATH

 

Change to:

PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/local/net-sense/bin

export PATH

 

Afterwards, the .profile file has been edited, you will need to log out and log back in again for your .profile to be re-read.  Confirm the new directory has been added to your path by issuing the following:

 

linux-1:net-scripts> env | grep "^PATH"

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/common/bin:/usr/local/net-sense/bin:.