[SLUG] $PATH

[Martin Webb]

Stephen O'Neill wrote:
> Martin Webb wrote:
>> In Fedora Core 5 / KDE desktop, several programs would not at first 
>> install, because /sbin was not in root's $PATH (needed stuff like 
>> ldconfig, which is in /sbin).  I can change and export PATH, but don't 
>> know how to make that change permanent.  I.e., how do you make 
>> PATH=$PATH:/sbin permanent/load up on boot?
> 
> Either put it in:
> 
> ~/.bash_profile
> 
> Or, from memory put a .sh script into:
> 
> /etc/profile.d/
> 
> The latter will be run for all users, the former just for the root user.

Thanks, Steve,

/etc/profile.d is a directory, containing:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  764 Feb 11 06:43 colorls.csh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  713 Feb 11 06:43 colorls.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  192 Mar  7 20:16 glib2.csh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  192 Mar  7 20:16 glib2.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   58 Mar  2 21:42 gnome-ssh-askpass.csh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   70 Mar  2 21:42 gnome-ssh-askpass.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   78 Feb 21 15:53 kde.csh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   74 Feb 21 15:53 kde.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  218 Feb 11 23:35 krb5.csh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  229 Feb 11 23:35 krb5.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2182 Mar 14 23:16 lang.csh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2509 Mar 14 23:16 lang.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  122 Feb 15 10:58 less.csh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  108 Feb 15 10:58 less.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   72 Mar  9 14:44 vim.csh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  246 Mar  9 14:44 vim.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  170 Feb 12 18:55 which-2.sh


Explored .bash_profile for root and for home directory, and can see how 
this works.

Maybe a meeting, maybe an internet reference, would be good, one of 
these days, mentioning the most important initialisation files, there 
location, and what they do.  A half hour entitled: "How GPU Linux boots 
up, and the files it uses".  Fascinating!

Thank you.
Martin