PATH changing in RH7.1

["John P. Verel" <jverel home com>]

Sigh.  I cannot believe I've forgotten how to do this :(

I need to append /usr/java/jdk-1.3.1/bin to my path.  I want it to be a
global setting.

My /etc/rc.d/re.local looks, in part, like this:

PATH=/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin:$PATH
export PATH

(According to the Red Hat Reference Guide, rc.local should be the last
thing run at boot time.  Do I misunderstand this?)

Yet, echo $PATH shows:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/john/bin

I've tried this in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, with the same results.

I run ximian Gnome, Red Hat 7.1.  It is possible that path gets
clobbered by gnome?

TIA

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John P. Verel
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