On 2021-04-26, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I have some custom additions to my $PATH. They're defined in ~/.profile > and they are correctly loaded when I log in from a text console. > > When I log in to X (cwm) and open a terminal window, $PATH does not > contain the entries. > > I tried `chmod +x` on my .profile but that didn't help. > > Both the text console and the X terminal window are using ksh. > > When I call `/bin/ksh -l` then the resulting shell contains the correct > additions to $PATH. > > It looks like the custom $PATH is not being passed from the login shell > on downwards, since ~/.profile is only read by a login shell.
Seems that your terminal in X is not configured to run a login shell. By default that is done for xterm via .Xdefaults in a new user's profile directory (copied from /etc/skel) but if you use a different terminal or have modified these files, that won't be used. > ~/.kshrc is (according to ksh(1)) read by every spawning shell, but I > don't see any documentation or examples on the Internet where someone > defined their $PATH in ~/.kshrc ... That is only if ENV is set. > What's the correct way to set $PATH and have it stick no matter where > and when the shell is spawned? If it's just PATH or some other environment variable, setting it for the relevant class in /etc/login.conf is one option. But probably simpler to configure your X terminal to run login shells.
