Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:04:23 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confused about bash profiles and environment settings. Message-ID: <20021118150423.GB30499@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <1037630612.73684.18.camel@daemon.home> References: <1037630612.73684.18.camel@daemon.home>
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:43:32PM +0800, Khairil Yusof wrote:
> So bash is getting it's path settings from somewhere else. /etc/profile
> is commented out.
>
> Where else is it getting my path settings from (login.conf?).
>
> I tried changing PATH in that and it doesn't affect anything.
login.conf is probably where your PATH setting originates from. If
you modify /etc/login.conf, you will have to run
cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
(as noted at the top of that file) before the changes will come into
force.
/etc/login.conf is the ultimate place where such settings may be
configured. You can override the settings from there just for your
own account by modifying ~/.login_conf, or you can override the
settings for a particular shell by modifying the appropriate rc files.
You can change settings in .xinitrc (startx) or .xsession (xdm) so
they will only take effect under X windows. In any case, you're going
to have to log out and log back in again before your session will
reflect the changes you've made.
> However if I cut and paste this path and put it into ~/.bash_profile
> certain commands don't work, and my addition of /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/bin
> finds java, but java fails to run (complaining about missing libs).
> On the other hand root which is using csh, if I edit .cshrc and add the
> java path in, everything works just as expected.
~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login is sourced one time, at login.
~/.cshrc is sourced each time you start up a new shell. You can use
~/.bashrc if you want the 'every new shell' behaviour under bash, and
~/.login for the 'once per login session' behaviour under csh.
Cheers,
Matthew
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