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Re: Setting default $PATH for all users

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Setting default $PATH for all users
Date 2019-02-11 00:30 +0100
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On 02/10/2019 05:00 PM, Lee wrote:
> On 2/10/19, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:57:22PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> I used "grep -r /usr/local/games /etc" which yielded "/etc/login.defs"
>>> and
>>> "/etc/profile". Editing those two files had no effect.
>>
>> How are you determining that changes to /etc/profile had no effect?
>> Because changes there (or in files in /etc/profile.d/) should affect all
>> new shels that you launch. Example:
>>
>> $ cat /etc/profile.d/extrapath.sh
>> export PATH=$PATH:/foo
>>
>> Then I open a new shell and echo $PATH, /foo is in there.
>>
>> If that is not your experience, you are doing something wrong, or your
>> system is very broken.
> 
> Or you're using xfce which seems to ignore .profile & .bash_profile
> Creating an /etc/profile.d/extrapath.sh from your example didn't do
> anything for me.
> 
> adding the line
> export PATH=$PATH:/foo
> to /etc/bash.bashrc however...
> 
> followup question - why are the bash "login" dot files ignored if
> you're using xfce?

Perhaps 'cause I've never used xfce?
For the record I'm using MATE as DE and lightdm as DM.

> 
> Regards,
> Lee
> 
> 
> 

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Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-08 14:20 +0100
  Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-02-08 14:30 +0100
    Re: Setting default $PATH for all users <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-08 14:40 +0100
      Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-08 16:00 +0100
        Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-08 16:10 +0100
          Re: Setting default $PATH for all users David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-11 04:10 +0100
            Re: Setting default $PATH for all users <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-11 10:00 +0100
              Re: Setting default $PATH for all users rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-11 13:50 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-11 14:10 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-11 18:10 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-11 18:30 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-11 18:40 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-11 18:50 +0100
                Re: Setting default $PATH for all users David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-11 21:00 +0100
        Re: Setting default $PATH for all users <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-08 16:40 +0100
  Re: Setting default $PATH for all users David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-08 20:10 +0100
    Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-10 22:00 +0100
      Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-02-10 22:30 +0100
        Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-10 22:50 +0100
          Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-02-11 00:30 +0100
        Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 00:10 +0100
          Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-11 00:30 +0100
            Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 01:30 +0100
              Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-11 15:40 +0100
      Re: Setting default $PATH for all users <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-10 22:50 +0100
        Re: Setting default $PATH for all users Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-10 23:30 +0100
          Re: Setting default $PATH for all users <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-11 10:00 +0100
            Re: Setting default $PATH for all users David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-11 14:50 +0100
      Re: Setting default $PATH for all users David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-11 03:30 +0100

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