Re: At a loss for PATH......

[Pascal Bonesh <firms@tiscali.ch>]

Hi,

I normally do it in ~.bashrc, as I try not to  change much in the system
so I can just backup my home where everything is that I changed and
installed sits and am done.

I guess you can also do it in 
/etc/profile: The systemwide initialization file, executed for login
shells
 /etc/bash.bashrc: The systemwide per-interactive-shell startup file

as man bash says. It's just important that you do 

export PATH=~/bin:/home/data/programs/j2re1.4.2_04/bin:$PATH

somewhere. It's not necessary to do it where it's set at boot time.

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 19:33, Vittorio De Martino wrote:
> Context: Pentium 4, debian testing, boxed KDE
> 
> I have just installed the java stuff - downloaded from SUN site- as a plugin 
> for mozilla. 
> The installation instruction requires that the directory in which I 
> installed the java libs and programs be part of the PATH variable.
> 
> My question is:
> Where the PATH variable is first set at boot time: 
> in /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc.bash or where?
> 
> Ciao
> Vittorio
>