Re: PATH value doesn't get updated

2008-05-12 Thread Carl Wenrich
the $PATH gets updated. Why does ubuntu provide the .bash_profile when a user is created, and then not source it when the system starts up? And since it doesn't, what do I change to make it happen? Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl Wenrich wrote: > echo $0 gives me "ba

Re: PATH value doesn't get updated

2008-05-12 Thread Carl Wenrich
echo $0 gives me "bash" echo $- gives me "himBH" Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl Wenrich wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Did you log in after having made that change? Was bash invoked as > > an interactive login shell so that it would read

Re: PATH value doesn't get updated

2008-05-12 Thread Carl Wenrich
Yes. I (1) made the change to .bash_profile, then (2) restarted the machine, then (3) logged in again. When I echo $PATH the /opt/lampp/bin is not included. Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: carlwenrich wrote: > I put this in my .bash_profile: > > PATH=$PATH:/opt/lampp/bin > export PATH > >