[SunHELP] setting PATH

Edward Chase echase at postoffice.providence.edu
Thu Apr 4 11:50:06 CST 2002


>On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Edward Chase wrote:
>
>| How is the PATH set in Solaris 8?  For a regular user?  For root?
>|
>| It appears these files all play a role in the setting of PATH:
>|
>| /etc/default/login
>| ~/.profile
>| ~/local.profile
>|
>| Please correct me if I'm wrong...

At 12:29 PM 4/4/2002 -0500, Dale Ghent wrote:
>/etc/profile is what you're looking for.

I still seem to be missing something...  My regular user account is getting 
/usr/local/bin inserted into the PATH multiple times.  It should only be 
happening as part of /etc/profile at this point.



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