On 2/10/19, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:57:22PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I used "grep -r /usr/local/games /etc" which yielded "/etc/login.defs" >> and >> "/etc/profile". Editing those two files had no effect. > > How are you determining that changes to /etc/profile had no effect? > Because changes there (or in files in /etc/profile.d/) should affect all > new shels that you launch. Example: > > $ cat /etc/profile.d/extrapath.sh > export PATH=$PATH:/foo > > Then I open a new shell and echo $PATH, /foo is in there. > > If that is not your experience, you are doing something wrong, or your > system is very broken.
Or you're using xfce which seems to ignore .profile & .bash_profile Creating an /etc/profile.d/extrapath.sh from your example didn't do anything for me. adding the line export PATH=$PATH:/foo to /etc/bash.bashrc however... followup question - why are the bash "login" dot files ignored if you're using xfce? Regards, Lee
