Re: PATH changing in RH7.1

[David Talkington <dtalk prairienet org>]

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John P. Verel wrote:

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

No, but you forgot that a user's environment is not complete until the
shell's .*rc files have been run after he/she logs in.  PATH usually
gets set globally in /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, /etc/cshrc.login, or
some such, and if its value doesn't include the existing $PATH, it
gets clobbered, as you saw.

I use /etc/profile for custom environment stuff for my users.

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