Re: System-wide PATH

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

I see it can be defined it /etc/login.conf (but the system path is
commented out).

I still don't understand where the path is currently set on a NetBSD
5.1 system, as by default it can't be login.conf....




On 29 December 2010 03:58, Vlad D.Markov <markov%freeshell.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 03:59:36PM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
>> 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).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>> >>
>> >
>>
> I didn't see anyone mention: /etc/login.conf
>
> That is what I used.
>
> I changed the path for the default user class. In my case I added
> /usr/local/bin.
>
> NetBSD has a concept of login-class which gives finer grained control
> over users then editing /etc/profile.
>
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