I have some custom additions to my $PATH. They're defined in ~/.profile
and they are correctly loaded when I log in from a text console.
When I log in to X (cwm) and open a terminal window, $PATH does not
contain the entries.
I tried `chmod +x` on my .profile but that didn't help.
Both the text console and the X terminal window are using ksh.
When I call `/bin/ksh -l` then the resulting shell contains the correct
additions to $PATH.
It looks like the custom $PATH is not being passed from the login shell
on downwards, since ~/.profile is only read by a login shell.
~/.kshrc is (according to ksh(1)) read by every spawning shell, but I
don't see any documentation or examples on the Internet where someone
defined their $PATH in ~/.kshrc ...
What's the correct way to set $PATH and have it stick no matter where
and when the shell is spawned?
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