I have installed JDK and Groovy on my Solaris 11 machine. I would now like to set things up so that the PATH variable would contain the bin directories whenever I open a shell.It is my understanding that the following lines added at the end of the /etc/profile file should do the trick.JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0PATH=${PATH}:${JAVA_HOME}/binGROOVY_HOME=/usr/local/bin/groovy-2.1.3PATH=${PATH}:${GROOVY_HOME}/binexport PATHHowever, when I restart my putty session, only the JAVA_HOME and GROOVY_HOME variables are affected. The PATH variable stays the same, e.g. /usr/bin:/usr/sbinI am wondering if there is another script that runs after /etc/profile, that might override the PATH variable. But I have no idea where to look.Or is there another problem?As porposed in a comment, I tried to use the following lines instead, but unfortunatelly with the same effect.JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0GROOVY_HOME=/usr/local/bin/groovy-2.1.3export PATH=${PATH}:${GROOVY_HOME}/bin:${JAVA_HOME}/bin
Solaris - permanently update PATH for all users
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Check /etc/default/login for login shells.  You can force an initial path there.Adding your variables to /etc/profile should work, depending on the version of Solaris running.  A more portable, for Solaris, way of doing it would be to separate setting the PATH variable and exporting it. JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0GROOVY_HOME=/usr/local/bin/groovy-2.1.3PATH=${PATH}:${GROOVY_HOME}/bin:${JAVA_HOME}/binexport PATHSolaris 11, where bash is the default shell will work ok with your profile, but older Solaris version may not parse the export PATH=... syntax as expected, or at all.Also, keep in mind that you're only changing the initial PATH for users.  /etc/profile is read before a user's .profile is read.  By default, Solaris users will usually end up with their own .profile file that contains a default PATH.solaris:~$ grep PATH .*.profile:export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbinSince this .profile is being read in after the /etc/profile that you've modified, your changes to $PATH will be discarded and the user's entries will take over.  You can add these changes for new users by editing the file /etc/skel/.profile, but to make the changes permanent for existing users, you would need to edit their individual .profiles, or overwrite them if they haven't edited them themselves.