On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:11:38PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? > I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not > there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't > locate the global. echo $PATH or env shows me the value just fine. > I've pored over the literature enough to know that damn near everything > from shell to Java to Python and points in between use one path variable > or another, but other than the export command I don't know how to change > them.
There really is no general, "easy" solution to this problem, given that all users on your system might be using any of a number of different shells. For Bourne-like shells (sh, ash, bash, ksh), check out the file /etc/profile. There should be a default one in place already. Keep in mind, though, if you have other shells, you'll have to edit more files. For example, zsh has a couple files in etc: /etc/zsh* (zsh *might* read /etc/profile---or you might be able to symlink /etc/profile to one or more of the /etc/zsh* files). I never use any of the csh family of shells (csh, tcsh), but I noticed I do have some /etc/csh* files. Hope that helps! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I find it truly amazing that social progress exists in light of the vast number of people who would rather persue shallow, unconsequential personal goals than try to contribute to civilization.
