Ok... where is .bash_profile for root supposed to be located? I've got one
for a user ("jimmy") I've created in /home/jimmy/.bash_profile and another
one in /etc/skel/.bash_profile. Edit the /etc/skel one or create a new one
in /etc?
So is there no need for .bashrc under Debian as described by the O'Reilly
book?
What happens if I've already set /etc/profile to the path I want and it
still truncates it with just the default entries? Is that a no-no (adding
custom path entries to /etc/profile)?
TIA
Andy
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> From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Setting Path ENV variable
> Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 2:27 PM
>
>
> 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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