chaging environnement variable

[sezam2]

Hello

i am a suse 10 sp2 64 bit user and a new linux user in general

to lunch yast on a xen ( virtual machine) i have each tile to tipe

cd /sbin
./yast


i tired to add tis directory with the commend

PATH=$PATH:/sbin

it worked but each time i open a new console same problem

question hwo can i change the evironnemen variable once and for all

in ubuntu it is somthing like

vim (gedit) /etc/.../environement

so

are you going to tell me hwo to change it or shall i go back to ubuntu i was kidding i like ubuntu but i started liking suse

come one dont u tolerate a liile joke

[D-cat]

I really like SuSE too, I just wish the package manager in Yast didn't send my computers straight into swap hell. (Apt Rules!)

Anyway, I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do. Yast can't really do its job from a user account anyway, so /sbin isn't in the user's path statement (which is the big usage difference between SuSE and Ubuntu). It should be in root's (thus the use of su (or login as root) to execute it). It should also be available from your host OS on the menu -> System -> Yast (Administrator Settings).

If you can't run yast without specifying /sbin as the root user, then there's a problem that requires editing files. If you simply wish to use yast from sudo, then you'll have to add to a config file. To affect only the current user, use ~/.bashrc , to affect all users, edit /etc/profile , just under half way down is the PATH= statement. The script does further adding to the path after that, so pay attention to the format before you add directories like :/sbin.