On our Alpha Digital UNIX 4.0b our users are set to use Korn shell. I
inherited the /etc/profile that is the first script to set up the users
profile. In it is the line
PATH=$PATH:/failsafe/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH
By experimenting I determined that when this is executed, the variable
PATH is set. I can't figure out how it got set prior to this statement.
(I did check that it is not set earlier in /etc/profile and no other
scripts have been called from /etc/profile up to this point.
I'm relatively new to administering UNIX so I expect that this is something
that's well known, just that I don't know and don't know where to look.
Thanks for your help.
Don Almy
Flight Test
Douglas Products Division
Boeing Co.
Received on Fri Nov 14 1997 - 00:46:50 NZDT