From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKKri-0003Oi-FO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:02:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13396E0BA1 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2EB7E0BDE for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578da1c.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.218.28]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nBEMhuNj019699 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:43:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 372E819D922; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:43:56 -0500 (EST) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)? References: <200912131830.37822.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4B254CEB.80808@gmail.com> <200912132044.00264.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20091213230133.1b4fdb09@digimed.co.uk> <358eca8f0912140318n49ca0305m7771b6833df1d621@mail.gmail.com> <20091214122242.1a325dc4@digimed.co.uk> <4B26B457.9060209@coolmail.se> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:43:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B26B457.9060209@coolmail.se> (pk's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:55:35 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: fdae76ab-ff86-4465-885f-a8ecb705df2c X-Archives-Hash: 1e93e9a62a909b756d1f00df00d0ff2e At Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:55:35 +0100 pk wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> I know it is just one line in the shell >> export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH >> but I don't know what file to put it in. >> >> It would be acceptable, but not preferable, if this was set for all >> users; the only requirement is that it is set for user gottlieb. > > For all users: /etc/profile (if using bourne derived shells like bash) > or > /etc/profile.csh (for c shell derivatives) > > For only your user: ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc or ~/.*rc > or whatever is used for your particular shell dialect. > > HTH Does that get sourced by the gnome panel so that launchers see it? I hadn't thought so, but will try it. Thanks. allan