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oh, isn't this pretty? :-)

Code:

dave@solaris:~$ cat /etc/release 

                  OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 snv_79b X86



                        _        _    _        _ _                

          _ __ _ _ ___ (_)___ __| |_  (_)_ _  __| (_)__ _ _ _  __ _ 

          | '_ \ '_/ _ \| / -_) _|  _| | | ' \/ _` | / _` | ' \/ _` |

          | .__/_| \___// \___\__|\__| |_|_||_\__,_|_\__,_|_||_\__,_|

          |_|        |__/

ok, the problem has been found/solved. jlliagre, you were beaten by only a margin.

I admit the answer was found by posting in the opensolaris forums (I joined for this question alone <G>).

The problem is with the gnome terminal, if I use xterm, all the path options are correct (and overflowing with duplicates from the various places I have set it and now need to clean up).

then, using your latest suggestion of looking in .bashrc reveals the problem:

Code:

dave@solaris:~$ cat .bashrc

#

# Simple profile places /usr/gnu/bin at front,

# adds /usr/X11/bin, /usr/sbin and /sbin to the end.

#

# Use less(1) as the default pager for the man(1) command.

#

export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

export MANPATH=/usr/gnu/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11/share/man

export PAGER="/usr/bin/less -ins"



#

# Define default prompt to <username>@<hostname>:<path><"($|#) ">

# and print '#' for user "root" and '$' for normal users.

#

PS1='${LOGNAME}@$(hostname):$(

    [[ "$LOGNAME" = "root" ]] && printf "${PWD/${HOME}/~}# " ||

    printf "${PWD/${HOME}/~}\$ ")'

dave@solaris:~$

edit: The OpenSolarus forum where I realised the problem was with terminal
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thre...55297&tstart=0

Solaris set the calsspath permanently

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlliagre (Post 3096436)

Can you post the content of /etc/release to clarify ?
Did you look at the bash files ?
~/.bashrc
/etc/bash.bashrc

Hi i am shashi from india, how to create the .profile in solaris 10
It is not there in /etc/profile or ${HOME}/.profile.

Best Regards,
Shashi

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.

Next time, please start a new thread instead of using an existing one which isn't particularly related.

There must be a /etc/profile on you Solaris 10 installation. This file is part of the OS.

If there is no $HOME/.profile, feel free to create one with a text editor.

:) this is very useful.

Dear All,
My OS is Oracle Solaris 10.
I did solve this by doing following steps:
1.login with root user
2.goto /usr/default

Code:

-bash-3.2$ cd /usr/default

3.enter this command: vi login
4.Then add following text in the login file,
As you know for inserting text, you need to press i character where u need to insert text.
I press i after this line: #PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin

Code:

# PATH sets the initial shell PATH variable

#

#PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin

(press i) and enter your path, my path was as following

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin

5.after entering the above mentioned text press ESC and
the enter colon : and then press w! and finished.
6.for exiting press SHIFT+z+z
7.for seeing the result enter exit command to exit from root user.

Hi mosini,

welcome to LQ and thanks for this posting.

Beware however that this thread is quite old and the original question was already answered eight years ago.