startup scripts / PATH variable

Hello group!

Can anybody here tell me, what scripts are executed between the startup
scripts in /etc/rc2.d (or /etc/init.d) and the login scripts (say
/etc/profile)?

I have the problem, that the PATH environment variable is already set when
/etc/profile is executed and contains very strange entries (i.e. paths of
software that had been installed on the machine years ago). Is there a
script being sourced before /etc/profile after login?

I found out, that the "system standard" PATHs (generated from
/usr/include/paths.h) can be found in /etc/default/login, but those contain
nothing special.

I know, I could just overwrite the PATH in /etc/profile, but I'd just like
to know where those paths come from.

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Christian

> Hello group![color=blue]
>
> Can anybody here tell me, what scripts are executed between the startup
> scripts in /etc/rc2.d (or /etc/init.d) and the login scripts (say
> /etc/profile)?
>
> I have the problem, that the PATH environment variable is already set when
> /etc/profile is executed and contains very strange entries (i.e. paths of
> software that had been installed on the machine years ago). Is there a
> script being sourced before /etc/profile after login?
>
> I found out, that the "system standard" PATHs (generated from
> /usr/include/paths.h) can be found in /etc/default/login, but those[/color]
contain[color=blue]
> nothing special.
>
> I know, I could just overwrite the PATH in /etc/profile, but I'd just like
> to know where those paths come from.
>
> Thanks in advance for your answers.
>
> Christian
>[/color]
Maybe this one's useful information, too:
I'm using the bash shell, and I'm getting slightly different paths depending
on from where I log in (console, telnet, ssh). And (of course?) I'm getting
different paths as root and as normal user.

"Christian Grothe" <grothe@fsr.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote in message
news:blbsod$eeg$1@news.tu-darmstadt.de...[color=blue]
> Hello group!
>
> Can anybody here tell me, what scripts are executed between the startup
> scripts in /etc/rc2.d (or /etc/init.d) and the login scripts (say
> /etc/profile)?
>
> I have the problem, that the PATH environment variable is already set when
> /etc/profile is executed and contains very strange entries (i.e. paths of
> software that had been installed on the machine years ago). Is there a
> script being sourced before /etc/profile after login?
>
> I found out, that the "system standard" PATHs (generated from
> /usr/include/paths.h) can be found in /etc/default/login, but those[/color]
contain[color=blue]
> nothing special.
>
> I know, I could just overwrite the PATH in /etc/profile, but I'd just like
> to know where those paths come from.[/color]
Have you already took a look at the shell config files and the files that
they
source? (ie: .tcshrc, .cshrc, etc). It could be that somebody set the path
on
those files.

Regards,
Josef