Re: [opensuse] Re: 11.0 & PATH variable

Yea, Brian. That's what puzzled me. Everything else in
profile.local was working except PATH. I had not previously
encountered the necessity of mucking around in bash.bashrc.local. Now
I know! All is working well. I'm liking SUSE11 and KDE4 more all the
time. I'm not averse to adjusting -- I just like to know AHEAD of
time when an adjustment is going to be required -- otherwise I whine.

Thanks again.

Chuck

On 7/4/08, Brian K. White <brian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Aha that might be a clue.
I said I can't duplicate the problem, but, as it happens, I always supply my
own /etc/bash.bashrc.local which has only one thing in it relating to PS1
and nothing else.
Maybe that is why I don't see your problem.
I'll have to wait for my next install to see what the stock 11.0
bash.bashrc.local is and see if that even makes any sense.

I feel for ya, but, it is just a config file.
Not an immutable behavior of the system or some binary.
They did't actually break anything, just altered a default behavior, and the
functionality of profile.local was not actuall removed
It doesn't stop you from doing exactly what you want, merely you have to
adjust to the new version of the OS.
That's just life on Linux. You always have to do that.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Davis" <cjgunzel@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Re: 11.0 & PATH variable


Randall:

Stubbornness and insistence are characteristics of human beings alone,
not of computers or their software...

Yes, some PERSON at SUSE decided to change a very convenient setup I have
been using for a very long time by creating/changing my profile.local. No
matter what I did by setting the PATH variable there (which used to work),
SUSE11.0 would put /usr/bin ahead of my modifications. I finally read
enough bash scripts to find out I now have to use /etc/bash.bashrc.local
to make my changes stick.

I put this information here to help anyone else who gets snagged by this
unexpected turn of events.

Thanks Brain for you input as well.

Chuck

On 7/3/08, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday 03 July 2008 20:09, Chuck Davis wrote:
Has anyone discovered a way to get around the stubborn insistence of
11.0 to require /usr/bin as the first entry on the PATH variable. ...




Any help will be appreciated.

By the way, I'm talking about defining the PATH in profile.local --
no longer works.

Individuals control PATH and other environment variables by establishing
or modifying them in their ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or
~/.profile files. See the "INVOCATION" section of the BASH manual for
details.

System-wide defaults for shells are established in /etc/profile. Other
application-specific defaults are established by files
in "/etc/profile.d/".


Chuck


Randall Schulz
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