Re: PATH changing in RH7.1

[Jason W Elliot <jelliot math cudenver edu>]

I usually do my path surgery in ~/.bash_profile.

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, John P. Verel wrote:

> 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
>
>

-- 
Jason W. Elliot
Dept. of Mathematics, University of CO at Denver
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jelliot
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