[plug] re; path settings

Greg Mildenhall greg at networx.net.au
Thu Aug 5 12:45:44 WST 1999


On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> > > I'm not too sure if Linux even have this, but I'm looking for a way to
> > > set a path statement in RH6 and to maintain that statement when I telnet
> > > into the box.
> > just man <shell of choice> and see what .files get executed when you
> > login or telnet in. Edit the path assignment line in those files. (at
> > least one of them should have one)
> In RHL you also get to tamper with PATH (and other environment variables) 
> (for all users) in /etc/profile.d.
I don't know RH all that well, but wouldn't that script be called from
.bash_profile or similar? If that's where RH put the PATH assignment, then
that's where you wanna change that PATH assignment. :)

-Greg



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