path settings in Red Hat 7

[Mickv]

Hi Gents/Ladies,

Yet another newbie question from me. How do check or add a directory to the Linux Path settings?

i.e. I want to see if /usr/sbin/ is in the path settings for it, if not, then I would like to add it.

Thanks once more :)

[X_console]

echo $PATH

That will show you your current path settings. To add a PATH you can append this to /etc/profile:

export PATH=$PATH:/new/path

[Mickv]

Thanks for that.

I've checked and the /usr/sbin is in the path, which is good...

The reason I wanted to check is that I have an ISDN modem card installed (which is supposed to work straight out of the box with RH6.1 or later), everything seems setup fine (isdn4k utils etc.). I also have a dialup script configured.

The problem is that when I run the script it initialises the ipppd0, but it stops with the message "ipppd0 temporarily unavailable". Very frustrating, especially when it comes to being a newbie to Linux.