[Mageia-discuss] mod-fortune path problem

Sun Sep 9 10:43:44 CEST 2012

Hi bascule,
+
+On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:14:11 +0100
+bascule <asura at theexcession.co.uk> wrote:
+
+> after installing mod-fortune the following is added to /etc/profile/
+> if [ "$UID" -ge 500 ] && ! echo ${PATH} |grep -q /usr/games ; then
+>     PATH=$PATH:/usr/games
+> fi
+> but /usr/games does not shoe up in my path when i log on to kde,
+> kmail says: /bin/sh: fortune: command not found
+> and konsole tells me:
+> [bascule at mycroft ~]$ echo $PATH
+> /home/bascule/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/lib64/qt4/bin
+> [bascule at mycroft ~]$
+> 
+> now obviously i can add /usr/games the same way i
+> added /home/bascule/bin but i thought that /etc/profile was system
+> wide stuff so whats going wrong here?
+> 
+
+This seems to be fine here on both Mageia 2 x86-64 and Mageia Cauldron x86-64.
+
+What happens when you ssh into your user account at localhost? Is /usr/games
+getting set properly then?
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
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