Re: Add to $PATH how?

[Jon Ingason]

Chris Bradford wrote:
>  For some reason /sbin/ is no longer in my $PATH or root's $PATH
>  
>  How can I edit my path, and ensure that this is saved upon reboot?
>  
>  This only seems to be the case in gdm, under tty1 both my account and
>  root have /sbin/ in our $PATH 
For root the /sbin/ is added in /etc/profile. Take a look at it. An 
ordinary user you should not have it in his PATH. But you can add it i 
.bash_profile. Something like this:

...
# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin

export PATH
...


>  
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Chris Bradford
>  Systems Administrator
>  Cambridge Newspapers
>  
>  
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Regards
Jon Ingason