christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> thats cool, putting echos in those files to see when they run, but i'd still 
> like to know >where< all the other environment vars are being set.
> 
> are environ vars set >only< in shell scripts?  or are there other things (i 
> dunno, like the kernel at boot time?) that can set environ vars?  i've 
> >never< seen the PATH var set without including itself in the definition 
> (i.e. PATH=$PATH:/blah/blah).  it must be set for the first time somewhere, 
> right?

There is a default path, but not sure where it is set, guessing I'd
say kernel.  But I don't see lots of stuff I don't know where its
coming from.  Can you name a few of these?  Are you sure it isn't
something in /etc/profile.d?



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