Re: System-wide PATH

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, IT geek 31 <itgeek31%googlemail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to modify the system-wide PATH, mainly to ensure /usr/pkg/bin
> and /usr/pkg/sbin are used first.
>
> Where do I do this?  I STFW'd and came up with nothing conclusive :-(
>
> Many thanks
>

For sh and ksh you might want to do a few things:

Make your system-wide changes to /etc/profile

Then check in /etc/skel/.profile because by default it has
PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/pkg/bin,
which overrides stuff in /etc/profile.

You might want to change that to:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/pkg/bin

Any users created would get ~/.profile from /etc/skel.

For csh it's /etc/csh.cshrc and then /etc/skel/.cshrc, etc.

Matt