Where is a PATH corrupted under the GNOME

[Michael R. Head]

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 09:20 +0300, audriusb at homelan.lt wrote:
> Quoting "ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY" <zamb at spymac.com>:
> 
> Thanks, settings in ~/.bashrc aren't redefined.
> Standard place for system-wide settings allways was /etc/profile or
> /etc/profile.local. I haven't found profile.local in HOARY; settings in
> /etc/profile are redefined.
> I think that UBUNTU designers made a bug here: there is no room for system-wide
> settings and I had to modify .bashrc for every user.
> New Linuxes designers should respect UNIX standards and agreements. Isn't it?

gdm is not a login shell, so .bash_profile and /etc/profile are not
execed. Only text console and ssh logins calling bash as a login shell
will source those files, if I'm not mistaken.

From `man bash`:

FILES
       /bin/bash
              The bash executable
       /etc/profile
              The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells
       /etc/bash.bashrc
              The systemwide per-interactive-shell startup file
       /etc/bash_logout
              The  systemwide  login shell cleanup file, executed when a login
              shell exits
       ~/.bash_profile
              The personal initialization file, executed for login shells
       ~/.bashrc
              The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
       ~/.bash_logout
              The individual login shell cleanup file, executed when  a  login
              shell exits
       ~/.inputrc
              Individual readline initialization file



> 
> Gediminas Bukauskas
> 
> 
> > On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 01:28 +0300, audriusb at homelan.lt wrote:
> > > I had to add new directory into the PATH variable. Opened /etc/profile file
> > and
> > > and append line to end:
> > > export PATH=/usr/local/j2re1.4.2/bin:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin:$PATH
> > > Got surprise: character console shows correct PATH but GNOME terminal
> > erases my
> > > modifications!
> > > I look for redefinition of PATH but found nothing.
> > >
> > > I added lines
> > >   PATH=/usr/local/j2re1.4.2/bin:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin:"${PATH}"
> > >   export PATH
> > > to end of .bash_profile in my home directory but my PATH was redefined
> > again!
> > > Can anybody tell me what GNOME script makes such diverse and where I should
> > > modify the PATH variable?
> > >
> > >
> > Put that line in "~/.bash_profile", "~/.bashrc", and "~/.gnomerc".
> >
> > Ziyad.
> >
> >
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> 
> 
> 
> 
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