Re: [SLE] Where is PATH stored?

Harry G <harrycg@attbi.com> writes:

I would like to know when you do a export PATH=$PATH: command, where is this being written?

System wide: /etc/profile.local and /etc/csh.login.local, see /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login. Note that a process inherits the PATH environment variable from its parent and thus the setting will have no effect on processes already running. SuSE does not implement the traditional Unix approach and so it may take you some time to learn which files are sourced when a shell is started. Also, some processes may set their own PATH and thus ignore the setting in /etc/*.local. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se