[Discuss] RHEL - modify system path with script in profile.d -

Dan Kressin dkressin at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 20 09:57:06 EST 2011


> Hello Dan,
>    You hit the nail on the head..
>    My test user and my customer were using the tcsh..
>    I changed my test user to bash and it worked.
> 
> 
>    I am more adapt to just convert my user to bash..
> 
>    I would like to insert a .csh ..script  but I'm not sure ..
> 
> I guessed with this and it did not work..      Thank you for your time..!!
> 
> [root at saeij11 profile.d]# more addpath.csh
> setenv PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sratoolkit.2.1.7-centos_linux64
> export PATH
> [root at saeij11 profile.d]#
> 

I believe the csh version would be just:

setenv PATH $PATH:/your/addition

(no equal sign, and setenv takes care of the 'export')

-Dan




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