Hello All, Request assistance on modifying the system path .. on a REHL box.
The change works for root but not for any of the users??? Host OS = 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 17:36:59 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Based on this : /etc/profile - and link below creating a script in /etc/profile.d http://serverfault.com/questions/102932/adding-a-directory-to-path-in-centosIt's Created script in /etc/profile.d - addusers: to add the path.. host profile.d]# vi addpath.sh export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sratoolkit.2.1.7-centos_linux64 Permissions of script. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 11:45 . drwxr-xr-x 100 root root 12288 Nov 18 17:49 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root saeijlab 61 Nov 19 11:45 addpath.sh This works for root but not for other users .. Why Open to ideas I am testing as a standard user and it does not work. Thanks.. Stephen Goldman System Administrator Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 31 Ames Street, 68-316e Cambridge, Ma. 02139 617-452-2595- sgold...@mit.edu _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss