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Updated SETTING_PATH.md for changes to affect all users
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Forgot to fix the example commands updating /QOpenSys/etc/profile.local
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Expand Up @@ -37,14 +37,24 @@ echo 'PATH=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin:$PATH' >> $HOME/.profile
echo 'export PATH' >> $HOME/.profile
```

To make this change for all users, put these lines in `/QOpenSys/etc/profile`,
To make this change for all users, put these lines in `/QOpenSys/etc/profile.local`,
like so:

```bash
touch /QOpenSys/etc/profile
setccsid 1208 /QOpenSys/etc/profile
echo 'PATH=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin:$PATH' >> /QOpenSys/etc/profile
echo 'export PATH' >> /QOpenSys/etc/profile
touch /QOpenSys/etc/profile.local
setccsid 1208 /QOpenSys/etc/profile.local
echo 'PATH=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin:$PATH' >> /QOpenSys/etc/profile.local
echo 'export PATH' >> /QOpenSys/etc/profile.local
```

Another way to make this change for all users that will also affect PASE programs called
directly via QP2SHELL is to add the PASE_PATH environment variable at *SYS level. You
may want to do this in addition to the above, make sure to test all your use cases
(eg. QP2TERM, QP2SHELL, and SSH) to ensure the path is as desired. Run this as a *SECOFR
class user:

```text
ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(PASE_PATH) VALUE('/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin:/QOpenSys/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/QOpenSys/usr/bin/X11:/usr/sbin:.:/usr/bin') LEVEL(*SYS)
```

**Need to run globally-installed Node.js modules,
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