I've just installed SuSE 7.3 Personal. I'm trying to get rp-pppoe running properly, but I have to edit my PATH. Sources tell me to looking in my .bashrc file. The first sentence is "#Sample .bashrc for SuSE Linux". OK, it tells me to look at .profile, same thing, it's a Sample.

/etc/profile, exists, btu recommends that I edit /etc/profile.local for personal (local) settings. The file does not exist on my computer???

Can anyone explain what is going on? My goal is to edit my PATH. But the files I'm told to edit don't have it? Honest

Thanks

Erik

there are plently of places to put it. i'm not sure quite what profile.local is meant to do, ive not come across it, but i guess it's meant to init non networking based settings. maybe. you can edit any file out of:

~/.bashrc
/etc/bashrc
/etc/profile
/etc/rc.local

and a few others, and they will all effect your path if you tell them to, just at different levels and such. add the following line to the one you want.

export PATH=$PATH:/new/place/to/add/to/path