On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Leandro Melo wrote: > Hi, I want to add a folder to my PATH enviroment variable, then i > tought i could edit /etc/profile. However, Fedora's /etc/profile file > seems a little diferent from what i expected. > In fact, i don't know excatly where i should change it to add this new folder. > I could see this line in /etc/profile > > if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then > if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then > PATH=$PATH:$1 > else > PATH=$1:$PATH > fi > fi don't mess with /etc/profile. note, instead, that /etc/profile, as part of its startup, will descend into /etc/profile.d and invoke every script in there with the suffix ".sh". just add a new script to that directory for each new "feature" you want to customize during the login process. rday
