[NTLUG:Discuss] PATH issue

[Wayne Walker]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:09:48PM -0500, Fred James wrote:
> In tracking down another problem (possibly related) I found that my
> PATH is set as follows ...
> /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt4/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin:/usr/lib/qt4/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin:/home/fredjame/bin:/usr/lib/qt4/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin
> ... wherein that last bit (:/usr/lib/qt3//bin) looks like a possible
> show stopper(?) for some things, but I cannot seem to locate where
> that is being set.
> 
> OS: Mandriva 2008; Gnome 2.20
> 
> Any suggestions/pointers would be greatly appreciated ... thanks ...
> google isn't getting there for me, so far
> Regards
> Fred James

On fedora and redhat there is a directory (/etc/profile.d) in which
files are dropped to add to the path and other startup tasks.

look at /etc/profile and see if you can find a similar directory on
Mandriva.

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