Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan not emailing me

[Gerald L]

Beartooth wrote:
> > I put this program in my bin directory in my home directory, i.e.,
> > /home/ david/bin. So in my pan preferences for the Mail Reader Custom
> > Command, I just put:
> > /home/david/bin/alpine_helper.pl
> > That does the trick.
>
> 	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. ...

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/

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

That will ensure you can use any executables you drop into your 
/home/btth/bin directory without having to type the full path.

Gerald