Adding to $PATH

[Dark Ninja]

I recently was instructed to add /etc/filename/ to my path so anybody on the system could run the program in question (that is not relevent to this discussion). Anyway, I edited /etc/profile and added /etc/filename to the line that said:

$PATH=/usr/src:/usr/blah:/blah/blah

However, it does not seem to work. I am not able to just type in the program's name and have the program run. Anybody help me with that? Thanks.


Dark Ninja

[X_console]

Your syntax is wrong. It should be:

export PATH=$PATH:/my/new/program

Save the file then type "source /etc/profile"

[bdg1983]

You added /etc/filename to the path? Should it not be /etc/directory_name?

My /etc/profile has

PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/scripts:./"

export PATH

[Dark Ninja]

Sorry about that - it was the directory name that I added. I'll have to log into Linux later and check it out to make sure I have everything correct. Thanks for the help, though.


Dark Ninja