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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: setting kdedir
From:       Jeffrey D Anderson <JDAnderson () lbl ! gov>
Date:       1999-08-17 15:52:32
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Patrick O'Neil writes:
 > Rob Kaper wrote:
 > > KDEDIR=/usr/kde
 > > export KDEDIR
 > > 
 > > or at once:
 > > 
 > > export KDEDIR=/usr/kde
 > 
 > I did the latter...but it only "held" for that session.  Upon 
 > logging in again for a second session, it had gone back to 
 > /usr.  It was then that I added KDEDIR to my personal .bash_profile.
 > That did it...but it shouldn't have been necessary...given that
 > I had added this to the global system /etc/profile file.
 > 

On Redhat and some other distributions the last section of
/etc/profile looks like:

for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
        if [ -x $i ]; then
                . $i
        fi
done

That is, all the scripts in /etc/profile.d are executed.  Take a look
at the one called kde.sh.

Jeff Anderson
JDAnderson@lbl.gov

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