Subject: Re: Setting Path ENV variable
Date: Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 09:24:37PM -0800
In reply to:Andy Thomas
Quoting Andy Thomas([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>| ok.. I've found the .bashrc in /root and put the path statement into there.
>| Yet is still gives only the standard path (login and type: set). Are
>| there multiple places where this needs to be set?
>|
>| The syntax is:
>|
>| PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/x11:/usr/code/c/util:/usr/code/c
>| /space:/etc/ppp:/etc/ppp/peers"
The /etc/profile PATH statement is for everyone. To add _to_ that
PATH you should do the following in _your_ .bash_profile
export PATH="PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/x11:"
This is an example only! The PATH after the = says to use whatever
the PATH was previously set to i(in /etc/profile) and add the neww
paths to it.
The reason your above PATH statement didn't do anything is that you
forgot to export it.
HTH
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