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[Sebastian Dransfeld]

--- profile 2002-08-26 15:14:24.0 +0200
+++ profile.new 2002-09-10 17:07:06.0 +0200
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 fi

 if [ "$UID" -ge 500 ] && ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/games ; then
-export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games
+PATH=$PATH:/usr/games
 fi

 umask 022

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[Paul Dorman]

Hi there,

I'm wondering why it is that changes to /etc/profile and ~/.profile
don't seem to have any bearing on my environment variables. I need to be
able to set these for my QTDIR and Java directories. 

If I have a PATH=$PATH:/some/directory and export PATH in my either one
of these files, the new $PATH is not reflected in my bash sessions. Can
someone tell me why? What is the policy on bash environment variables.
Is there any way to tell just what sets these variables during any one
session (eg. is their creation/alteration logged)? In addition to my
alterations not being present (even after changing init levels) there
are some strange entries which I can't discover the cause of. I've
checked /etc/bashrc and ~/.bashrc of course.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Sincerely,

Confused :oP