hi members, I am very new to Linux; about a year of experience.

Our environment is Suse 9 & 10 boxes. We have many products installed on these boxes. To mention a few; Sag products (natural, Adabas), Microfocus V5 Server Express, Migrationware.

The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a bit of a problem to me. One of our linux people who has many years of experience, says that this path should only be set
in /etc/ld.so.conf.d. The way to refresh this if changes are made is to issue the ldconfig command.

For the microfocus lib directory, we have an entry in the /etc/ld.so.conf.d directory with the microfocus lib directory. What i am finding is that when i do microfocus upgrades; where as i have a new microfocus /lib directory, then even when i issue the ldconfig command, my LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not correct.

So my question is can the LD_LIBRARY_PATH be set using an export in profile.local, or does it have to be set in the /etc as i have described.
If anybody knows how to set this correctly, i would sure like to hear from them. thanks.