symbollic link

[pengu34]

Hi Guys

I've created a symbolic link by doing the following:
ln -s /home/oz/rute/index.html /usr/bin/rute

However if I type rute I get the following
bash: /usr/bin/rute: Permission denied

ANy ideas how I can get my html page to launch???

Thanks

[sether]

HTML pages aren't executable. An easy way to open up that page is to setup an alias. In your ~/.bashrc file put something along the lines of

alias rute="/path/to/html/browser /home/oz/rute/index.html"

If you want to make it system-wide look for the bashrc file in /etc. I think most browsers should know what to do with that alias.

[pengu34]

Follow up.

I've never created an alias before. Where in bashrc do i put this.

The following is the contents of the current file:

# /etc/bashrc

# System wide functions and aliases
# Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile

# by default, we want this to get set.
# Even for non-interactive, non-login shells.
if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then
	umask 002
else
	umask 022
fi

# are we an interactive shell?
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    case $TERM in
	xterm*)
	    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
	    ;;
	*)
	    ;;
    esac
    [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
    
    if [ -z "$loginsh" ]; then # We're not a login shell
        for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
	    if [ -x $i ]; then
	        . $i
	    fi
	done
    fi
fi

unset loginsh

[sether]

Well, it's probably best not to modify the system-wide bashrc, but if you're sure you're okay with this, just add the alias line to the end.

[pengu34]

OK not to put this in the system bashrc.

Last thing -do you always put alias at the end of the file.

Heres my .bashrc file

# .bashrc

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
USERNAME="root"
export USERNAME ENV PATH

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
	. /etc/bashrc
fi

# enable programmable completion features
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
	. /etc/bash_completion
fi

Thanks for feedback

[sether]

That looks like root's ~/.bashrc. You want to put it in your regular user's ~/.bashrc. And you can add the alias line to the beginning or end, or even in between other lines so long as it doesn't interefere with anything, but just put it at the end to be safe.