"Praedor S.Tempus" wrote:
>
> Somewhere on this infernal box is a path statement which is setting it up for
> me and all users. I cannot find it - I would like to change it so a few new
> directories are in the path for all users. It used to be /etc/profile which
> contained the penultimate path statement - but no more. Apparently,
> .bash_profile doesn't serve any purpose (on my box at least). I have to
> manually do an "export <desired path>" from a CLI to get it to change but
> then, it is ONLY for that session.
Using LM8.0:
Among other things, "man login" has this paragraph:
Random administrative things, such as setting the UID and
GID of the tty are performed. The TERM environment vari�
able is preserved, if it exists (other environment vari�
ables are preserved if the -p option is used). Then the
HOME, PATH, SHELL, TERM, MAIL, and LOGNAME environment
variables are set. PATH defaults to
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:. for normal users, and to
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin for root. Last, if this is
not a "quiet" login, the message of the day is printed and
the file with the user's name in /usr/spool/mail will be
checked, and a message printed if it has non-zero length.
SHELL is set from /etc/passwd (default=/bin/sh). See "man bash".
"strings `which bash`" gives this set:
~/.bashrc
/etc/profile
~/.profile
~/.bash_profile
~/.bash_login
My ~/.bashrc-private contains, among many other things:
export
PATH="$PATH:~/bin"
Be careful how you use the above line, or you'll get lots of path copies.
I'm sure you can follow the bouncing ball through these scripts...
HTH,
Pierre
