I'm running SUSE 8.1. I'm trying to make a change to the PATH startup variable, and I surrender. I've been looking everywhere to see where it's set, and I can't find it. On page 306 of the Administration guide, it's shown - but of course it's not there when I run Yast. It's not where the documentation I've read said it should be, and I've looked at 3 books. Can anyone help me find this? I'm completely lost. tia. -- Satterwhite's Observation #2: In any situation in which theory conflicts with reality, reality wins every time.
On Friday 14 March 2003 13:12, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I'm running SUSE 8.1.
I'm trying to make a change to the PATH startup variable, and I surrender. I've been looking everywhere to see where it's set, and I can't find it. On page 306 of the Administration guide, it's shown - but of course it's not
Do we have different versions of the Admin Guide? On page 306 of my version I see a lot of apache config variables.
there when I run Yast. It's not where the documentation I've read said it should be, and I've looked at 3 books.
Can anyone help me find this? I'm completely lost.
The path is set in /etc/profile. If you want to add your own directories to it, use either /etc/profile.local for changes that should affect all users, or $HOME/.bashrc for changes that should affect only one user. Something like export PATH=/new/directory/bin:$PATH Anders
On Friday 14 March 2003 06:18, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 14 March 2003 13:12, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I'm running SUSE 8.1.
I'm trying to make a change to the PATH startup variable, and I surrender. I've been looking everywhere to see where it's set, and I can't find it. On page 306 of the Administration guide, it's shown - but of course it's not
Do we have different versions of the Admin Guide? On page 306 of my version I see a lot of apache config variables.
Sorry 304 - picture at the top.
there when I run Yast. It's not where the documentation I've read said it should be, and I've looked at 3 books.
Can anyone help me find this? I'm completely lost.
The path is set in /etc/profile. If you want to add your own directories to it, use either /etc/profile.local for changes that should affect all users, or $HOME/.bashrc for changes that should affect only one user. Something like
export PATH=/new/directory/bin:$PATH
Thanks - that's just what I was looking for. -- Satterwhite's Observation #2: In any situation in which theory conflicts with reality, reality wins every time.
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