Starting programs from console

[nikotine]

Hi!
I'm a bit confused here.
I use Suse linux 10.1 and installed the latest version of aircrack-ng package using make and make install commands.
Now some of the programs like aircrack-ng, airdecap-ng and packetforge-ng can be run by just typing this in console.
But for airodump-ng, airmon-ng and aireplay-ng I first have to cd into the /usr/local/sbin/ folder before I can execute them.
How can I change this?

[nikotine]

After googling, googling and some more googling I found that shell commands look in directories defined by the $PATH variable.
So I searched how to change this variable and this topic had the answer.
Now, just out of curriosity, where did this setting get saved?

[nikotine]

Hmmm...
It seems that this setting doesn't get saved at all.
As soon as I close the shell, you have to start all over again...

[nikotine]

Following this topic I edited my bashrc file in my home folder with the line

export PATH=$PATH:/path/i/want/

It works like a charm now.
I found all the answers on this wonderful forum

Cheers