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  From: Robyn Manning <rmanning@adam.com.au>
  To  : Daryl Pilkington <u3232@home.dialix.com>
  Date: 17 May 2002 22:11:00 +0930

Re: /etc/profile

Hi

If the path statement refers to all users then put it just above the
export statement, you wont need the leading export statement in the PATH
as you've written it ie

PATH=$PATH:/opt.....

is fine.

HTH

Robyn

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 21:51, Daryl Pilkington wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got to install DB2 v7.1 on RH7.2.
> Using the HowTo, I need to add the following lines to /etc/profile:
> 
> export PATH=$PATH:/opt/IBMJava2-131/jre/bin
> 
> 
> Looking at my /etc/profile, it has conditional statements, so exactly
> where do I add the above line?
> 
> # /etc/profile
> 
> # System wide environment and startup programs, for login setup
> # Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc
> 
> 
> # Path manipulation
> if [ `id -u` = 0 ] && ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "/sbin" ; then
>     PATH=/sbin:$PATH
> fi
> 
> if [ `id -u` = 0 ] && ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "/usr/sbin" ; then
>     PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH
> fi
> 
> if [ `id -u` = 0 ] && ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "/usr/local/sbin" ;
> then
>     PATH=/usr/local/sbin:$PATH
> fi
> 
> if ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "/usr/X11R6/bin" ; then
>     PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"
> fi
> 
> # No core files by default
> ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> USER=`id -un`
> LOGNAME=$USER
> MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
> 
> HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
> HISTSIZE=1000
> 
> if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then
>     INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
> fi
> 
> export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
> 
> for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
>     if [ -r $i ]; then
>     	. $i
>     fi
> done
> 
> unset i
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daryl  Pilkington 
> 
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