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From: Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au>
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Kurt,

On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Doug White wrote:

> > When I log in to my machine as root, I have access to the /usr/local/bin
> > directory via the bash shell, but when I log in under any regular users
> > I cannot access any of those executables.
> > Where can I set the environment for bash so that /usr/local/bin is
> > accessible to all users ? I'm assuming there is a master profile
> > hiding away someplace that I need to add some lines to. 

> I believe it's in /usr/share/skel/, looking at /usr/sbin/adduser (it's a
> Perl script).

Along a different line of thought...

There is also the system wide profile for bash, which can be found at
/etc/profile. I think for csh it's called csh.login (something like that).
Check out your bash man page for specifics.

Good luck, 

Joel...