[ILUG] PATH statements in Mandrake 8.0

[Liam Bedford]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:21:57 +0000
Ronan Waide <waider at waider.ie> blurted in message 15514.5813.769603.106053 at klortho.waider.ie:

> On March 21, declan.moriarty at ntlworld.ie said:
> > 
> > Thanks, Waider, but <grep -r PATH /etc/profile.d/*> shows zilch, and 
> > /etc/profile already has the $PATH bit without me putting it there.
> > 
> > I can't set /usr/local/bin the path in X either. Perhaps I should stick to 
> > what I'm good at - hardware :-<
> 
> Doing what I'm good at myself, which is reading manuals, I find that
> PATH is set by login to a default value, before being modifed
> elsewhere, such as in /etc/profile. Why is it such a big deal that
> /etc/profile already has $PATH? Can't you just insert
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH into it?
> 
Well, depending on what you want to do, surely doing the following will work with bash:

add to ~/.bash_profile

[ -f ~/.bashrc ] && source ~/.bashrc

add to ~/.bashrc

PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH}
export PATH

if what you mean is you have sendmail in /usr/local/bin, and you
want that to be run from a startup script, you're better off changing the script to run /usr/local/bin/sendmail, that way you won't have any nasty surprises if you delete /usr/local/bin/sendmail, and forget to fix the scripts (the script will fail, but it won't run the wrong one).

L.
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