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_How_ to set tcsh $PATH WAS: Re: [SLE] Who to set global tcsh path
  • From: JW <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 20:30:12 -0600
  • Message-id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011223202850.020c64f8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I have a correction: with at least one user, when logging into fvwm2 through kdm they have a full $PATH.

Weird.

At 08:25 PM 12/23/2001 -0600, you wrote:

>I just set up a 7.3 installation on a laptop and found that $PATH is wrong for all users who have tcsh set as their log in shell.
>
>users with tcsh have a short path like the followign:
>
>ccslaptop /home/csc> echo $PATH
>/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/gnome/bin:.
>
>Whereas bash users have a full $PATH:
>
>ccslaptop:~ # echo $PATH
>/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde2/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/opt/gnome/bin
>
>(not sure why gnome is in there twice)
>
>I don't really want to use per-user rc files, and greping through /etc didn't turn up anything that looks like PATH for *csh*.
>
>Could someone tell me where to set a global tcsh $PATH ?
>
>TIA
>
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>Jonathan Wilson
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