Re: Correct way to add things to shell profile?
On Sat, June 28 at 9:37 PM EDT
Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org> wrote:
> [ Please CC me on replies ]
>
> Hi, what is the correct Debian way to get a shell to evaluate
> something when it starts (e.g. like /etc/profile)? I'm trying to add
> things to the PATH for a group of machines. Other distributions have
> something like /etc/profile.d, but Debian does not.
>
>
What shell and is it a login shell? I think that /etc/profile *is* read
by login shells (at least it says so in bash man page).
If you are creating users then maybe put a default .profile in /etc/skel
and it will be copied into each home dir by useradd.
PATH=$PATH:/usr/custom/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin
will take the current PATH (usually set from /etc/profile) and add the
rest to it.
HTH
Shawn Lamson
shawn.lamson@verizon.net
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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