KDM not recognizing that /usr/games is in my path

**jmcook** · 10-05-2002, 03:13 PM

If i log in a console, /usr/games is in my path, but when I log into KDM it is not. My kdm-config file has /usr/games in it, and it is the only path there that doesn't work. Any ideas?

Mike

**jmcook** · 10-05-2002, 04:39 PM

From konsole in KDE
bash-2.05b$ echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin

Then when I hit ctrl+alt+f1 and log in
bash-2.05b$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/bin:/usr/bin/X11

**pbharris** · 10-05-2002, 06:05 PM

hello mike,
the path really should be the same for both, i would edit my ~/.bashrc file or ~/.bash_profile and see what the path is getting set to. I am not a kde user - but i gott assume they ar enot messing with environment varibles.

**jmcook** · 10-05-2002, 11:40 PM

Actually I don't have a .bashrc or bash_profile, however, I do have an /etc/bash.bashrc.

# System-wide .bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells.

shopt -s checkwinsize

**jmcook** · 10-06-2002, 01:24 AM

Well, I figured it out, but it still doesn't make sense to me. I had to add --login after the #!/bin/sh at the beginning of my kde2.sh startup script. What I don't understand is without the --login, it set every directory in my /etc/profile except the /usr/games dir.

**pbharris** · 10-06-2002, 01:26 AM

edit!

wow - good find mike!

**jmcook** · 10-06-2002, 02:35 AM

Thanks, I just got desperate and started reading the bash man page LOL. Once I seen the --login oprion I did a google search and eventually it led me to a gentoo linux faq, where I found the answer
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