[Apfhex]

In Panther (10.3.2), whenever I open the Terminal it says:
Welcome to Darwin!
-bash: /sw/bin/init.sh: No such file or directory
and then gives me the normal command prompt, and everything seems to work as normal. I've had no problems with my system but I've been curious about this for a while. Is this normal behavior? (p.s. seems there really is no such directory /sw, or any file init.sh anywhere)

[Moonray]

Blame Fink for that. It has put a line in one of your startup files to call that file. Find that line in your .bashrc, or .profile, or .bash_profile (or whatever your bash users have) and remove it.

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[JNI]

Originally posted by Moonray:
Blame Fink for that. It has put a line in one of your startup files to call that file. Find that line in your .bashrc, or .profile, or .bash_profile (or whatever your bash users have) and remove it.

That's right. But it means that you must have had installed fink at some time in the past, and then removed it. Is that the case? Or maybe you copied some other shell startup file from a system that had fink installed?

If you do have fink installed, maybe you told it to install somewhere other than the default of /sw and somehow that did not get reflected in your shell startup file.

If you do in fact want to use fink, you will need to resolve this, as fink and the things installed via fink won't work correctly if you don't call its init.rc file.

[Apfhex]

Oh! Yes, I think I may have installed Fink at one point, but I have since deleted it. I also have Fink Commander sitting around in my Applications folder.

Yes, that line is in my .profile file. Should I remove the line, or the file altogether (there's nothing else in it)?

[JNI]

Originally posted by Apfhex:
Oh! Yes, I think I may have installed Fink at one point, but I have since deleted it. I also have Fink Commander sitting around in my Applications folder.

Yes, that line is in my .profile file. Should I remove the line, or the file altogether (there's nothing else in it)?

Either would be fine.

What I did was add some conditional code. That way if I re-install the system and try to open a shell before re-installing fink, or move my init file to another system, it does what it needs only when it needs. Like this:

Code:
if [ -f /sw/bin/init.sh ]; then
    /sw/bin/init.sh
fi

edit:

Actually, you may need to source the file, as it may not be executable by default. You just have to add a dot before the path to the init file:

Code:
if [ -f /sw/bin/init.sh ]; then
    . /sw/bin/init.sh
fi