I'm not sure exactly where your path is coming from. However, a couple
of points: you need
export PATH
somewhere to make PATH part of the global environment (not just limited
to within the profile script; you can extent the path thus:
export PATH=$PATH:<addition to end of path>
or
export PATH=<addition to beginning of path>:$PATH
What you set in /etc/profile should (according to the FM) should be read
whenever you open a login shell, so maybe you just forgot to export the
PATH. The only other place I think this could be set is ~/.profile, so
you might want to check that out.
HTH
Rich
Arcady Genkin wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> I'm having a problem adding to a system-wide PATH variable... I've
> added the following in /etc/profile:
> PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/java/bin"
>
> However, "echo $PATH" produces:
>
> ./:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin
>
> My ~/.bashrc and ~/bash_profile do not contain anything to do with
^^
probably just a typo (should have '.')
> PATH variable. SO where is the system-wide PATH specified?
>
> Also, how do I dynamically add to the PATH variable in bash?
>
> Thanks!
>
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