[wplug] SuSE PATH

[Vanco, Don]

>SuSE does not appear to have the concept of ~/.bash_profile
Did you try making one?
 
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	-----Original Message----- 
	From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org on behalf of Wise, Jeremey 
	Sent: Wed 5/5/2004 1:15 PM 
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	Subject: RE: [wplug] SuSE PATH
	
	

	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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