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Re: root PATH clobbered -- where do I fix it?



On 8 Dec 1996, Rob Browning wrote:

> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> 
> > My machine has the PATH in .bash_profile for root. Do you have such a
> > file?
> 
> It turns out that the problem is that the installation uses
> root/.bash_profile to set up the system the first time and deletes
> itself when it's finished.  This leaves you without anything to set
> the root path when you log in next time.
> 
So the install leaves root without .bash_profile by deleting it at the end
of the installation process? Sounds pretty counter productive to me ;-)

Luck,

Dwarf

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