On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:49, Bill Mullen wrote: ... > This is because of the "::" that appears about 2/3 of the way into the > $PATH - this is the functional equivalent of ":.:" ... and that is a Bad > Thing to have in there, as you know. >
ah-hah -- missed that. > I'd suggest hunting through the various places in the scripts where the > $PATH is amended, and finding where this is being set. There are a number > of places it could be - /etc/profile, somewhere under /etc/profile.d, > ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, the rc file for your display manager ... > > Or, you might want to just use the checkpath function that was posted in > the alt.os.linux.mandrake newsgroup by Chris F.A. Johnson to clean this > up. You can place a file like the following into your /etc/profile.d dir; > make it executable, and name it "zz_local.sh" (to ensure that it will run > last - they're executed in alphabetical order): this rocks -- thanks! -- Jack at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... "Come on you rambling boys of pleasure and ladies of easy leisure, we must say Adios until we see Almaria once again." -- Fiesta from If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues
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