Where is the best place to set the PATH variable

[sym]

I need to set some environmental variables, and I don't want to mess with the system setup files. Where is it considered the most appropriate place to declare and export environmental variables, both for an individual account, and globally?

Thanks.

[ 17 August 2001: Message edited by: sym ]

[Choozo]

Depending on your distro, I would do the following:
Globally available PATHs; put them in /etc/bashrc
Individually PATHs; put them in ~/.bashrc

Of course, this implies that bash is the default shell.

Cheers :)

[bdg1983]

System wide PATHS in /etc/profile