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Re: Setting default $PATH for all users

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On 2/10/19, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> 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.

Which is semi-interesting I guess, but you're the one that wanted a
single location to add $PATH elements for all current & future users -
yes?  The interesting answer would be if adding
export PATH=$PATH:/foo
to /etc/bash.bashrc is what you're looking for.

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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