$PATH not being honored

[Doug McNutt]

Deimos ~/bin> ls -l
-rwxrwxr-x 1 doug doug 25 2012-04-10 10:10 firefox
-rwx--x--x 1 doug doug 7236 2011-11-01 11:30 Firefox.pl
-rwx--x--x 1 doug doug 220 2011-11-01 11:30 Run_in_tcsh
-rwx--x--x 1 doug doug 384456 2011-11-01 11:30 tcsh
-rwx--x--x 1 doug doug 3197 2011-11-01 11:30 xorit
A few have been snipped.

Deimos ~/bin> cat firefox
/usr/bin/firefox -P default $1 &

Deimos ~/bin> echo $PATH
/home/doug/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

Deimos ~/bin> which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox

I want my personal versions to be executed when they come first in my path. They always used to but that was in real UNIX or before this version of ubuntu. /home/doug/bin/firefox works just the way I want it.

Yes, I use tcsh but I get the same performance in bash.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-18.31-generic 3.0.26
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 10 10:22:30 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Doug McNutt (dmcnutt)]

The problem has gone away after the ubuntu version I'm now running was installed.
I think it's now 12-04 but I can't seem to get the machine to say that.

uname -a shows this:
Linux doug-GG045AA-ABA-a6142n 3.2.0-25-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 20:30:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux