[ale] bash path problems

[Jeffrey B. Layton]

Sorry. I should have given more information that this is the
"easy" solution. I'm trying to find in /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile
where it adds /usr/local/bin to PATH. I can seem to find it.
I can post them if needed. BTW - this is a CentOS 4 box.

Jeff

> In other words...
>
> ~/.bashrc:
>
>      PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH
>      export $PATH
>
> On 7/19/07, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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
>> 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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