Re: Correct way to add things to shell profile?
What do you mean by "evaluate", please?
If you simply want a path to be set for all users, add it to
/etc/profile:
bret@ganesha:~$ cat /etc/profile
# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
# and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2se/1.3
export CLASSPATH=.:/lib/tools.jar:/lib/dt.jar
...
All users inherit the environment in /etc/profile. Do you mean
something else?
Also, in general, debian.org has links to fairly good documentation, and
much of it can also be installed locally.
Cheers,
Bret
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 21:37, Ari Pollak 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.
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