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Wayne,

Try looking in /etc/profile or /etc/csh.login.  No I don't know who
andrew is.

Rod McLean

Wayne Best wrote:
> 
> Hello World
> 
> I need some help in tracking down some startup files. I presume these
> must exist on my system as I see their effect but I can't find them. In
> particular I am concerned about my PATH environment being set. I have a
> number of startup files (including rc.S rc.M and rc.local) in my
> /etc/rc.d directory. These set PATH to /usr/bin:/usr/sbin. That's good,
> but when I try and run a program in /usr/sbin it can't be found. I then
> type env and find my PATH has been mysteriously and erroneously changed
> to include a number of bizzare directories including /usr/andrew/bin but
> not /usr/sbin. This happens whether I log on as a normal user or root.
> Another problem which I suspect is related is, when I log on as normal
> user I get coloured directory listings but not when I log on as root.
> 
> I am using Linux 1.3.18 which I installed from Slackware 3.0.  There are
> no startup files in my home or root directories (ie no .login .profile
> etc) that I can find.
> 
> So I have three questions:
> 
> 1. Who the hell is andrew and what's he doing on my system?
> 2. What files could be responsible for changing my PATH?
> 3. What files could be responsible for the difference in colour
> listings?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, it's driving me nuts!!
> 
> Wayne
> --
> 
>    *      Wayne M Best
>  *   *
>     '     e-mail:    wmbest@cygnus.uwa.edu.au
>    *      web site:  http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~wmbest/