On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:22:29PM +0930, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote: > Hi, > is there a way to activate changes made to /etc/profile other than > rebooting the box? > > I don't mean 'export PATH=$PATH:foobar' > I want a change I make to /etc/profile to become active system wide, not > just in one terminal,
You don't have to restart the box, but you do need to re-execute the shell in which you want the change to appear. Typically that can be done by either closing the xterm and reopening it, restarting the application that uses the shell, or (for VCs) logging out and logging back in again. There's no way (TTBOMK) to tell every shell on the system to "reinitialise" itself from it's standard set of config files -- if only because it would likely clobber anything you'd set in one particular shell, which which would potentially suck very hard. - Matt
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