ok, I'm not that big of a newbie, but have some q's. Where can I find my global path in RedHat 7.2? In RH 7.1 I went into /etc/profile and I saw a bunch of path statements like

"PATH=/usr/local:/bin/whatever:/something/here"

But in 7.2 all i see are a bunch of if/fi statements. I want to global $PATH not the user's .bashrc. Also, how can I use the 'export' command to make it *save* the new PATH? ya i have rtfm'ed, maybe i missed something though=)

Also, in Konqueror, how do I get text boxes like this to use wordwrap. What I mean is say if I'm using the Redmond Browser on the Redmond OS, when I post a message on this board or most other BB's the text box on the page uses wordwrap, or well actaully the text box in IE is bigger than the one in Konqueror. Anyone I can fix that? its kinda annoying. Well thanks in advance

You could probably just add it to /etc/profile if it's not there, but to use export just:

export PATH="usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:blah blah blah"

With all of the paths you want. Sorry can't help yuh as far as konqueror's word wrapping.

but when using 'export', atleast when I have used it .. it never actaully saves it after reboot ..??

If you want it to be a permanent change, you should put it in "/etc/bashrc" ( or "/etc/profile"), or "~/.bashrc".

I prefer to use "~/.bashrc" because I know that if you only have to log out and log in again the changes will take affect permanently (in all virtual terminals).

Don't forget to make sure the script is executable:

chmod u+x ~/.bashrc

There is a duplicate thread here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=17382

/etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile are read once on initial login. /etc/bashrc and ~/.bashrc are read on each invocation of a shell.

If you want changes in /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile to take effect, you have to log completely out and back in again. If you want to see the changes in /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc just open a new shell with xterm or su - username.

Environment variables are typically placed into the /etc/profile or ~/.profile (the distinction being that the first one will affect all users on the system, and the second one will only affect you).

You can put them in any of the four files mentioned above though and they should still work.

As a Linux user, you should remove the term reboot from your vocabularly! The only times you really need to reboot are when you make changes to the filesystem (quotas, nfs, adding/removing partitions).

Ryan

To reread your profile (like after you edit it) you can just use "source ~/.profile"