Solaris 11 + PATH enviroments variables

UNIX Solaris
1

Ok, this is the little annoying.
I can't set up $PATH variable for all non root users on Solaris 11 express.

oracle@DevelopBox01:/export/home/oracle$ cat /etc/default/login 
........
# PATH sets the initial shell PATH variable
#
PATH=/usr/bin:/opt/DTT:/opt/DTT/bin:/opt/solstudio12.2/bin:/opt/solstudio12.2/bin/amd64:
/usr/bin:/usr/bin/amd64:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ddu/bin/i386:/usr/gnu/bin/amd64:/usr/gnu/bin:
/usr/has/bin:/usr/openwin/bin/amd64:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin

and when I echo the variable then all I see is

oracle@DevelopBox01:/export/home/oracle$ echo $PATH
/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

And I need to set only for user oracle certain varibles

oracle@DevelopBox01:/export/home/oracle$ grep ORACLE_ .login
ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME="$(ORACLE_BASE)/product/10.2.0.1.0"; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID oracle; export ORACLE_SID

and of course I don't how to set up something trivial like that, this varibles must be initialed upon login.
User shell is KSH93

Thanks

2

As far as KornShell is concerned, I believe you need to modify different files:

Ref: KornShell 93 Manual Page

3

Do you have any PATH variable in the .profile?

My guess is that maybe it's something like

PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

Where it should:

PATH=$PATH:/foo/bar

Can you cat the .profile to the forum?

4 
oracle@DevelopBox01:/export/home/oracle$ cat .profile 
#
# Simple profile places /usr/gnu/bin at front,
# adds /usr/X11/bin, /usr/sbin and /sbin to the end.
#
# Use less(1) as the default pager for the man(1) command.
#
export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PAGER="/usr/bin/less -ins"

#
# Define default prompt to <username>@<hostname>:<path><"($|#) ">
# and print '#' for user "root" and '$' for normal users.
#
PS1='${LOGNAME}@$(/usr/bin/hostname):$(
    [[ "${LOGNAME}" == "root" ]] && printf "%s" "${PWD/${HOME}/~}# " ||
    printf "%s" "${PWD/${HOME}/~}\$ ")
5

The variable PATH is being overwritten on login via the current .login file.

Put the following line instead of what's present and that will do it:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

Wanna test it before editing your file? Try the following at the prompt:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/opt/DTT:/opt/DTT/bin:/opt/solstudio12.2/bin:/opt/solstudio12.2/bin/amd64:
/usr/bin:/usr/bin/amd64:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ddu/bin/i386:/usr/gnu/bin/amd64:/usr/gnu/bin:
/usr/has/bin:/usr/openwin/bin/amd64:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin

and then

echo $PATH

Hope it fixes your problem.

Thanks Jlliagre, I did not notice this one ...

6

You should remove some unnecessary paths and add some others:

export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/DTT/bin:/opt/solstudio12.2/bin:
/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ddu/bin/i386:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin

---------- Post updated at 07:33 ---------- Previous update was at 07:31 ----------

Typo:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/opt/DTT:/opt/DTT/bin:...
7

Thanks, I successfully setted my PATH variable but for some reason Oracle database 10 won't start. I am going to try with some other database, it is for my college purposes only and I want a good knowledge in databse field. Will try with databse 11 but requires too much RAM.