Re: users being able to use /opt/bin/

George Kraft <[email protected]> 30 Jun 2004 09:05:37 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.discuss
Organization IBM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've update setup-opt.sh which can be download for review from

	http://www.linuxbase.org/~gk4/setup-opt.txt

I propose briefly mentioning it in the LSB book, then provide it to
Prentice Hall for the readers to download and use.  Providing it in this
way will give us time to debug/enhance the script and to make it generally
available.  Any comments or objections?

George (gk4)

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  variable.  Usually the end-user's shell will find applications in their 
  respective <filename>/opt/<replaceable>package</replaceable>/bin/</filename> 
  directories; however, the system administrator may have created symbolic links
! or wrapper scripts in <filename>/opt/bin/</filename> for each package.
  			</para>
  			</note>
  	</sect1>			
  
--- 166,178 ----
  variable.  Usually the end-user's shell will find applications in their 
  respective <filename>/opt/<replaceable>package</replaceable>/bin/</filename> 
  directories; however, the system administrator may have created symbolic links
! or wrapper scripts in <filename>/opt/</filename> for each package
! using <command>setup-opt.sh</command>.
  			</para>
+ <programlisting>
+ # setup-opt.sh -b /opt/whizbang/bin/widgets
+ # setup-opt.sh -m /opt/whizbang/man/widgets.1
+ </programlisting>
  			</note>
  	</sect1>