[wplug] SuSE PATH

Wise, Jeremey jeremey.wise at agilysys.com
Wed May 5 13:15:15 EDT 2004


SuSE does not appear to have the concept of ~/.bash_profile.

? ibid? Guess i'm a little slow today. As for /etc/profile I tried
modifying this on a RedHat 9 box and it does work the file structure
references a function called "pathmunge" but it looked straight forward.

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:00, Vanco, Don wrote:
> > 1) What is the proper way to add a new path?
> system wide: /etc/profile
> per user: ~/.bash_profile
> 
> > 2) Where is the path held or parsed that X uses?
> ibid
> 
> 	-----Original Message----- 
> 	From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org on behalf of Wise, Jeremey 
> 	Sent: Wed 5/5/2004 12:55 PM 
> 	To: General user list 
> 	Cc: 
> 	Subject: [wplug] SuSE PATH
> 	
> 	
> 
> 	I installed Mozilla on SuSE 9.0 and for some reason it does not have the
> 	PATH available for my user in a shell (though it works in X). I thought
> 	you could add path entries in /etc/profile for the whole system.
> 	
> 	Ex:
> 	
> 	vi /etc/profile
> 	
> 	...snip...
> 	# Make path more comfortable
> 	#
> 	if test -z "$PROFILEREAD" ; then
> 	    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/local/mozilla
> 	    for dir in $HOME/bin/$CPU $HOME/bin ; do
> 	        test -d $dir && PATH=$dir:$PATH
> 	    done
> 	    test "$UID" = 0 && PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH
> 	    for dir in  /var/lib/dosemu \
> 	                /usr/games \
> 	                /opt/bin \
> 	                /opt/gnome/bin \
> 	                /opt/kde3/bin \
> 	                /opt/kde2/bin \
> 	                /opt/kde/bin \
> 	                /usr/openwin/bin \
> 	                /opt/cross/bin
> 	    do
> 	        test -d $dir && PATH=$PATH:$dir
> 	    done
> 	    unset dir
> 	    export PATH
> 	fi
> 	
> 	
> 	Where I would just apend "/usr/local/mozilla \" at the end of the list.
> 	It does not work. I have tried to poke around in ~/ with no luck.
> 	
> 	Question:
> 	1) What is the proper way to add a new path?
> 	
> 	2) Where is the path held or parsed that X uses?
> 	
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> 	
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