Re: PATH confusion in BASH

[Kent West]

Kent West wrote:

Kent West wrote:

According to "man bash",

When  bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-
       active shell with the --login option, it first reads and 
executes  com-
       mands  from  the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.  
After reading
       that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and 
~/.profile,
       in  that order, and reads and executes commands from the 
first one that
       exists and is readable.




In /etc/profile are these statements (they're the only path-related 
statements in this file):

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
export PATH




I do not have a ~/.bash_login nor a ~/.profile. There are no 
path-related statements in my ~/.bashrc, and the only path-related 
statements in my ~/.bash_profile are these:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
    PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi




(Interestingly, I don't see an "export PATH".)

But at a BASH prompt, this is the result:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin




which does not have my ~/bin, nor the same path as defined in 
/etc/profile. Where is my path being set then?

I don't have the solution yet, but I have discovered that it's 
KDE-related. If I Ctrl-Alt-F2 to a virtual console, I get the path I 
would expect. If I start X with startx/icewm instead of KDM/KDE, I get 
the path I expect. I'll try KDM/icewm and see what that does.

It's definitely related to KDE (v 3.2, in sid, on a 2.6.x kernel); I can 
start icewm from KDM and the path is as I would expect.

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Kent
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