[ale] bash path problems

[Jeff Lightner]

Are you saying you can't edit /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile?  That would
seem to be the way to do it.

Of course you can always override the default PATH from those files by
doing PATH=whatever at the command line or in your $HOME/.bashrc or
$HOME/.profile.

Just don't do "PATH=$PATH:whatever" as that tells it to append whatever
to the END of the existing PATH meaning it will continue to use the one
from /etc/bashrc or profile.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Jeffrey B. Layton
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:22 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] bash path problems

Afternoon,

I hate to bother everyone, but I'm having bash path
problems. I want /usr/bin to be before /usr/local/bin,
but it's always the opposite. I even moved all of .bash*
files to a different directory and I still get /usr/local/bin
before /usr/bin. So it mush be in the system files
(/etc/bashrc, /etc/profile). Does anyone have any
suggestions on how to do this? It should be easy, but
I'm missing it.

TIA!

Jeff

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