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Dealing with a weird problem on CentOS trying to add the Play! framework to my path. Just earlier I successfully did a chmod +x play on Play! and I could run commands.

Then I rebooted and it completely fails. All attempts to retry chmod fail. I'm doing this from root user, it has 777 permissions, and belongs to the root group.

bash: play: command not found

What am I not considering?

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It isn't enough to just add the directory to $PATH; you must make a change to your configuration to add it to $PATH on reboot or shell start. Try editing ~/.bashrc.

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Perfect, thanks! Switched from Solaris and just not yet familiar with RHEL/CentOS yet ;) This did it alias play="/home/usrName/javaApi/play-1.1/play" – DeLongey Feb 2 at 8:07
Aliases is a bad work around if you just wanted it in your $PATH, and Solaris works the same way by the way. See this link for more info on .bashrc and .bash_profile: joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html – Yanick Girouard Feb 22 at 5:02
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