/etc/profile doesn't work for setting a global PATH

ttilt · 04-15-2004, 10:42 AM

hey,

I've been trying to adding /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin to my PATH in order to use the java compiler from anywhere. I tried adding this to my PATH in /etc/profile, thinking this would change the path configuration for all users at boot time, but it doesn't work... it's like the file is never executed...

Isn't /etc/profile supposed to always run for all users logging in?

thanks,
John

jsokko · 04-15-2004, 12:08 PM

Can you post how you've added the PATH?

ttilt · 04-15-2004, 01:27 PM

here are snippets from my /etc/profile file:

...
# Users generally won't see annoyng core files
[ "$UID" = "0" ] && ulimit -S -c 1000000 > /dev/null 2>&1

if ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/X11R6/bin ; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
fi

if [ "$UID" -ge 500 ] && ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/games ; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/games
fi

...
# my modification
PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/bin

...

export PATH