On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 10:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ok, heres a candidate for the dumb question of the year award! > > I have debian woody, and am trying to compile qt3.1 ,for which i need to alter > the path for the logged on user (in this case root) > I have tried modifying > /root/.profile > /etc/profile > /etc/login.def > all to no avail. in fact completely removing all of the above files still has > no effect on roots path. > Does anyone know which file should be edited to change the path string? > > cheers > Paul. Here's a long shot. Try logging in as root rather than using sudo. I find sudo bypasses a number of profile settings. HTH -- Rob Stockley Manawatu New Zealand
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