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profile for root
Name: Sandra Date: March 25, 2001 at 15:01:17 Pacific
Comment:
I know I can set the environment for normal user in .profile (Bounce shell), but why can't I find the same file for supersuer? Of course, if I create a .profile file in "/", it works. The problem is where are the default settings located in root? for example $PATH ?
Name: Freddy Date: March 25, 2001 at 22:07:51 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, You've already got the answer, add the variable PATH in the .profile in /. For superuser profile, you should have a variable PATH creating during install, including the path to binary.
For normal user, you can find default profile in /etc/skel.
Freddy
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Response Number 2
Name: oliver Date: March 26, 2001 at 11:09:48 Pacific
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system wide settings are in /etc/profile but I have no idea where root gets it's path from
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