[SunHELP] problem setting PATH under solaris 8

Wed Mar 28 02:34:48 CST 2001

it's 644 I think (it's perms are rw.r..r..)

At 08:26 AM 3/28/01 +0200, you wrote:
>On Tue 2001-03-27 (17:50), Bran Tregare wrote:
> > I edited both /.cshrc and /.profile  and inserted the appropriate
> > directories in the path but the root shell doesn't seem to want to pick it
> > up :(
> >
> > > > I can't seem to get root to take a path other than
> > > > /usr/sbin:/usr/bin  is
> > > > there any particular tricks I am missing to edit the
> > > > path for root? :(
>
>is there foreign write permission for /.profile ?
>What about /etc/profile ?
>
>Just two wild guesses, each $0.01 worth
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