On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 02:02, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > can somebody tell me where the PATH variable is initially set? I'm sure, not > in /etc/profile. > > Regards > > Joachim Backes > >From man bash: > When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- > active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- > mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading > that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, > in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that > exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the > shell is started to inhibit this behavior. > > When a login shell exits, bash reads and executes commands from the > file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists. > > When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash > reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists. This > may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile file option > will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of > ~/.bashrc. > Then, in reading the default /etc/profile: > for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do > if [ -r "$i" ]; then > . $i > fi > done > So the moral of the story is: For login shell: 1) /etc/profile which will call /etc/profile.d/*.sh 2) ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile The PATH is a variable that is set/modified by any of these.... Remember that he who saves last wins.... HTH, --Rob
