On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 05:23, Irvine Russell wrote: > Mike Stewart kirjoitti 09.12.2002 kello 11:58: > > Hi there, a simple question from a simple newbie.... how/where do I > > set up > > the PATH ? I need to add a folder to it. > > > > I looked in etc/profile but that seems to pick up the path from > > somewhere > > else then add user's specific things to the original path ? > > Hei > > Didn't quite understand what you meant by: > "somewhere else then add user's specific things to the original path" > > I took a look at /etc/profile and didn't quite understand what it was up to. > > Anyway, if you want to set the path for a single user I would put it in that > user's ~/.bashrc. > > Make sure that that user's ~/.bash_profile sources .bashrc - that is has > something like the following in it: > > if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then > . ~/.bashrc > fi > > Not sure if this is the best solution, but it should work. >
I think that the user's .bash_profile is actually where this was intended to be you should be able to add your path extension to the line already there. There is something about when bashrc gets called vs whe profile does but I forget and have never actually run into an issue with it. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
