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Dash ignoring PATH?

My dash shell seems to be ignoring the PATH set in my /etc/environment file. Trying to launch firefox with dash, for example, gives me this message "dash: Can't open firefox". I have to specify "/usr/bin/firefox" for it to work. I'm pretty sure that it didn't work this way before, since some of my shell script are now broken. I could point "/bin/sh" to bash instead (bash still works properly), but I'd like to get to the bottom of this.

I was fiddling with the PATH lately, so that may be the cause. Currently it's like this:

Code:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/myusername/lejos/bin"

Is there a problem with it?

A brief search via www.google.com/linux tells me that dash sources $HOME/.profile. So, check your .profile to see if you have a line like this: set PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/myusername/lejos/bin".

Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't seem to be working. Am I doing it right? Here is my ~/.profile file (I added the last line):

Code:

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.

# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login

# exists.

# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.

# the files are located in the bash-doc package.



# the default umask is set in /etc/profile

#umask 022



# if running bash

if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then

    # include .bashrc if it exists

    if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then

        . ~/.bashrc

    fi

fi



# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists

if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then

    PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"

fi



# added to try to fix path

set PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/myusername/lejos/bin"

I don't think you are supposed to use set with path

try:

Code:

user@system# PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/myusername/lejos/bin