Hello, sorry for such a newb question.

I have a fresh copy of Suse 9.2. I just installed "checkinstall" and it put the two binary files in /usr/local/sbin (my path points to /usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin only)

How do I permanently add that directory to Root's path? There is not a .profile file in my /root directory for me to edit or play with. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Robert

Well, you need to check the system-wide script that is run when a user logs on: /etc/profile. Usually there's some kind of if-statement in there that checks if it is the root user that logged in, and if so, it sets the path accordingly; if not, it sets a different path. You could just add what you need there. Or you could probably add what you need into the .bashrc file in root's home directory. If the .bashrc file doesn't exist, you can just make it.

Of course, there's the manual way:
which is the same thing you'd put in .bashrc if you wanted.

-- the dudeman

Wow, thank you so much. Thats what I need to know. I've been tinkering with Slackware off and on learning a few things about Linux, and Suse is alot different as far as how things are set up. (from my lack of experience) Again, thanks friend.

-Robert

I like the quote on the end of your posts. I showed a few friends that one and laughed pretty good.

--the dudeman