Re: System-wide PATH

[IT geek 31 <itgeek31%googlemail.com@localhost>]

I forgot to mention that my shell is Bash, compiled from source (into
/usr/local/bin/bash).



On 24 December 2010 20:28, matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> 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
>