Looking for this i do the following:
[john@homer /etc]$ grep -r PATH= * 2>/dev/null |grep -v \$PATH
Read the man page for grep to find out what this is doing. The 2>/dev/null part
redirects all of
the error messages generated (try it without that to see what kind of errors) to the
bit bucket.
And i'm excluding $PATH b/c i don't want to look at any additions to an already
defined path (like
PATH=$PATH:/whatever:/whatever/else), i only want to look at the first definition(s)
of PATH.
That command spews out a bunch of stuff. The files that look like likely candidates,
to me, are
the following:
rc.d/rc.sysinit:PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
rc.sysinit:PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
I don't know if modifying either of those to adjust the path is the thing that is
commonly done.
Another place you can change the path is in /etc/skel/.bash_profile. /etc/skel/
contains all of
the files that are placed in a newly created home directory.
Hope that helps to point you in the right direction :-)
j
--- Dave Hand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This may be a dumb question and if so I appoligize in advance. I would
> like to know where the default path is defined so that I can customize
> it. The advantage being that as I add users they would automatically get
> it at log on.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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