At 10:21 PM 7/12/2003 -0400, Brian P. Bilbrey wrote:
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.
It's actually just a bit more tangled than this, Brian.
At the systemwide level, you have:
/etc/profile, the standard for sh and any sh-compatible shell (e.g., bash).
/etc/bash.bashrc, another standard for bash.
/etc/login.defs is actually used by login, not bash, but it can do some bash-like things.
At the user (which Brian currectly associates with ~, not <) level, you have
~/.profile, the user-specific analog to /etc/profile ~/.bash_profile, an alternate name that may replace the above ~/.bashrc, the user-specifci analog to /etc/bash.bashrc
The files in /root are red herrings, in that they are simply the user-specific file for userid root.
The exact details of how this stuff works, and the exact names used for the files, vary a bit from one distro to another, so you'll have to check the docs specific to your setup to get it right. An additional complication is that which of these files runs when a shell is opened depends on whether the shell is the result of a login, an su, an su -, or a #!/bin/bash header in a shell script.
It's messy.
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