On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 19:52, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > Hi All > > I know that part of the path statement is located in /home/<user/.bashrc > and part is located in /root/.bashrc but I believe that there is another > system location for another part of the path statement.
Yep. When you login as ~user, you get ~user's path spec from ~/.bashrc, that's true for the root user, too. That is, when you login as 'frank', you never, ever source /root/bashrc. The system wide basis path is often (but not always) found in /etc/profile. > I would appreciate it if some knowledgable person would enlightenment me as > to the location of this third part. So, just to flog a dead horse, there is no third part. There is /etc/profile, which is the basis, then any additional pathing should be added through something like a export PATH=$PATH:/opt/foo:/usr/bar in ~/.bashrc, whether a normal or superuser. HTH, .brian -- Brian Bilbrey: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and http://www.orbdesigns.com/ First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing,for verbing weirds language. Then, they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs. - Peter Ellis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
