On Aug 1, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Dave Gutteridge wrote:

Great! Thank you. Turns out it was in /usr/bin/local. I would have thought /usr/bin/local would be on the default path. Can I set it to be?

do you mean /usr/local/bin? /usr/bin/local is pretty nonstandard.

SIMPLE ANSWER: set your $PATH environment variable in ~/.profile. this command will do it:

echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin" >> ~/.profile

close your terminal window, open a new one, and you're good to go.

MORE COMPLEX ANSWER: the simple answer only sets this variable for one user, you. Red Hat provides you will a straightforward facility for setting the variable for all users on the system: the /etc/ profile.d directory.

look in /etc/profile.d - you'll find a number of files called something.sh and something.csh. each of the something.sh files are written in Bourne shell syntax and will be read by bash/ksh when they initialize; the something.csh files are written in C shell syntax and will be read by tcsh/csh when they initialize. you could create a file called path.sh that looked something like this:

# path customizations export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

and another called path.csh that looked something like this:

# path customizations setenv PATH "$PATH:/usr/local/bin"

and then all new instances of shells systemwide would adopt the new settings. also, since these new files you'd create would not be owned by any package, you shouldn't have to worry about them being clobbered during software updates.

-steve

p.s. one tip that may save you a long "find /" in the future; rpm -ql <packagename> gives you a list of all files contained in a given package. "rpm -ql wacom | grep wacomcpl" might have been a quicker route to success (assuming the wacom package was named something like wacom.x.y-z.i386.rpm)

--- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v

On Mon, August 1, 2005 11:41 am, Steve Huff said:

p.s. one tip that may save you a long "find /" in the future; rpm -ql <packagename> gives you a list of all files contained in a given package. "rpm -ql wacom | grep wacomcpl" might have been a quicker route to success (assuming the wacom package was named something like wacom.x.y-z.i386.rpm)

This is true for rpm packages, but the original post said the drivers were made and installed ... I assumed that those were not an RPM, but they could have been.

Another thing that can be done is to install slocate and set the command updatedb to run in cron, then you can use the command:

locate name_of_file

This is much faster than find, but only if the slocate database is kept updated.