This one's driving me nuts.
there are 4 files sourced when I log in...
        /etc/profile
        ~/.profile
        ~/.bash_profile
        one other, I can't remember.  Mabye /etc/bashrc or /etc/bash_profile

Anyway, the first to be executed is /etc/profile.
However, if I put "echo $PATH" at the beginning of this file,
there is already a PATH in place which looks something like:

          /usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

The rest of my scrips just append to this list.
So my question is:
Where is my PATH originally being set?  /etc/profile
is supposed to be th first script executed for a login
session.  However there is already a $PATH in place by
the time I get there!


Bryan Scaringe

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