On Sunday 13 July 2003 13:41, Hal MacArgle wrote: > On 07-13, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > > but when I close the terminal and reopen the terminal to check the path > > has reurned to its original form. > > > > Would some one please enlightnment me as to the corrrect procedure for > > changing this path. > > Greetings: Haven't been following the thread but was > wondering if your distribution uses '/etc/profile'... On my machines, > what I enter as environment variables are global.. Just a thought. > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.18) > Proprietary Formats Unacceptable > . Hi Haltec
As with manythings I do I started off doing one thins and continue into something else. In this case I started out trying to add to and clean up what I though were a few items which I did not like in my PATH statement. I now am trying to figure out where my PATHS statements are. First I use a plural for statements because there appears to be quite a few of them in Mandrake 9.1. How many I am not certain I am not sure of. I am definite that there is a system statement that root adds to for foots usage. Now there could be others in this system addition mode beside root that I do not know nor am I sure they exist. I think that there is another general statement for users. This thinking comes about since I can not explain // and :: in my posted statement except by this but then again I am not sure as I have not found any real evidence in a file of such. I do know that there are additions added to what appears to be the user general statement by each individual user. I have found these files. Also, I do know that this is quite complex. I have records of that. Where all this stands currently is I am confused, flustered, and bewildered ie situation normal. Thanks Frank - 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
