Re: System-wide PATH

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

Bash is also an sh (bourne) shell.

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 3:39 PM, IT geek 31 <itgeek31%googlemail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> I forgot to mention that my shell is Bash, compiled from source (into
> /usr/local/bin/bash).
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> 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
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