On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> About 3 days ago I noticed that my PATH had been altered. To be exact, it had been
>shortened. The most notable thing it that /usr/local* isn't there any more - no good
>because I use a lot of things that are in /usr/local/bin.
>
> First, does anyone have any idea what sort of thing could screw up a working $PATH?
>I am 100% sure non of the files in my ~ got touched.
>
> Even stranger is that every single user seems to get different results from "echo
>$PATH" even though we have _not_ edited our dot-files (i.e. .bash_profile .bashrc
>.profile ....) they are all still the default as follows:
>
> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
> So I started greping for "$PATH" and export "PATH" in /etc/, and found it /only/ in
>/etc/profile and /etc/bashrc. To my surprise, both of those /also/ call a previous
>$PATH, and simply append to it:
>
> PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"
>
> So my question is, where on earth is the original value for $PATH set?
>
> JW
1) please use your carriage return key to avoid absurdly long lines in
your email
2) $ man login
rday
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