syntax error in /etc/profile

[tim3dman]

@tsu2

It’s not clear to me whether you edited /etc/profile to support your PacketTracer app.

If you did, that’s not what you’re supposed to do…
Following the comments in /etc/profile, you’re supposed to create a /etc/profile.local and place your customizations in that file.

An alternative is to create your customizations as a script, and place the script in /etc/profile.d/

It’s my understanding that whenever you do a zypper dup, /etc/profile is supposed to be over-written, erasing your edits.
Obviously, this would become a persistent problem in TW while only being a rare, occasional issue in LEAP.

TSU

I didn’t edit /etc/profile, PacketTracer 7 and 7.1(I tried both) did. I always use zypper dup only and /etc/profile wasn’t being overwritten.