Re: PATH changing in RH7.1

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

I went with David's suggestion.  My /etc/profile now includes:

PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin"

echo $PATH yields:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin:/home/john/bin, and all is well.



Thanks, Trond, for the interesting idea of using an
/etc/profile.d/jdk.sh file for jdk environment settings.

This time, I'll both save AND file everyone's help on this.  Thanks to
all.

On 09/01/01, 07:49:53PM +0000, David Talkington wrote:
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> John P. Verel wrote:
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> >(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.
> 
> - -d
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