Editing /etc/profile, some doubts

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Leandro Melo wrote:

> Hi, I want to add a folder to my PATH enviroment variable, then i
> tought i could edit /etc/profile. However, Fedora's  /etc/profile file
> seems a little diferent from what i expected.
> In fact, i don't know excatly where i should change it to add this new folder.
> I could see this line in /etc/profile
>
> if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then
> 	   if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
> 	      PATH=$PATH:$1
> 	   else
> 	      PATH=$1:$PATH
> 	   fi
> 	fi

don't mess with /etc/profile.  note, instead, that /etc/profile, as
part of its startup, will descend into /etc/profile.d and invoke every
script in there with the suffix ".sh".  just add a new script to that
directory for each new "feature" you want to customize during the
login process.

rday