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ewl

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Registered: 2006-10-31

Posts: 24

PATH

I accidently deleted $PATH. I put the following in because they were obvious:
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin

Are there any other directories that I should put in there? I googled this but couldn't find what the default path was for arch linux.

noriko

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From: In My Mind

Registered: 2006-06-09

Posts: 535

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Re: PATH

this envar generally depends on each system,
but, it would; be useful to add the,

sbin
bin

of every directory in
/opt

so, add i.e /opt/gnome/sbin
also, /opt/gnome/libexec

/sbin , i doubt it'd be /usr/bin/sbin

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T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: PATH

just reinstall bash and source /etc/profile.

filoktetes

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From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

Re: PATH

If you deleted $PATH by just writing unset PATH or PATH=, you can just run these:

. /etc/profile
. ~/.bashrc

And you'll be back, I suppose.
If you messed with the /etc/profile, you can just re-install bash. If you need the standard path right away, here it is:

export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin"

But depending on what programs you have installed, they put their own PATH entries in the /etc/profile.d directory. Some useful paths can be /opt/gnome/bin and /opt/kde/bin.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: PATH

right but sourcing profile also sources the paths in profile.d/*

ewl

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Registered: 2006-10-31

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Re: PATH

export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin"

That's odd, I don't have a /usr/X11R6 directory. I hope that's not anything to worry about...

filoktetes

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From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

Re: PATH

No, you don't need to worry. /usr/X11R6 was the old path to the X binaries. Now it's just good old /usr. I don't know why the entry still lingers in the PATH, though.

anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 225

Re: PATH

I have a question on PATH... This is the output of export:

[rogier@anadyr ~]$ export
declare -x PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb"

But I cannot seem to find the config file where this information is stored
/etc/profile:

export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin

~/.bashrc does not include anything... Where is this config located?

Last edited by anadyr (2007-03-22 22:10:41)

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: PATH

The files in /etc/profile.d/ may add a path to the PATH variable.

anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 225

Re: PATH

That is not the case. I checked all the separate files.
I am particularly curious as to why /usr/bin is mentioned twice, and where /usr/ucb comes from... Any ideas?

BTW the actual problem is (was) that /sbin and /usr/sbin is not in the PATH... It seems that these two entries were removed when I started using xdm, and default runlevel 5 (in /etc/inittab)...

Last edited by anadyr (2007-03-22 22:43:20)