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Re: PATH variable--where is it?



On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:11:38PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> I give up.  This is making me nuts.  Where is the path variable stored?
> I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile.  It's not
> there.  I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't
> locate the global.  echo $PATH or env shows me the value just fine.
> I've pored over the literature enough to know that damn near everything
> from shell to Java to Python and points in between use one path variable
> or another, but other than the export command I don't know how to change
> them.  
> 
> I'm just a poor illiterate dos/win user trying to step up.  I just can't
> find autoexec.bat ha.

check out /etc/login.defs

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