[newbie] Basic question re startup scripts

2001-01-20 Thread Henryk M. Kowalski
Forgive the "less than newbie" nature of this question. I'm sure there's written info on this out there already, but I can't find it... In Linux Mandrake, (specifically 6.x, 7.0 and 7.2): what is the basic order of startup scripts that are executed when the system starts up the first time,

[newbie] PATH variable mess

2000-12-21 Thread Henryk M. Kowalski
Does anyone know all the different locations in which the PATH variable is set in Linux Mandrake? I'm running 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 on different machines. The same problem shows up on all. Here's an example: The PATH variable on this 7.0 machine seems to be a run-on circular definition: