Re: Where is a good reference for setting PATH in all the various shells

How about a couple of samples???

Thanks

DSP

Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:26, Ed Wilts wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:20:47AM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>>
>>>Path is such a basic environment, it would be nice to have a 
>>>/etc/defaultpath file where all paths are on a separate line and all 
>>>shells would first consult this file.  Perhaps even a 
>>>/etc/defaultrootpath /etc/defaultuserpath.  There are probably 20 good 
>>>reasons this isn't a good idea, though I don't know what they are.
>>
>>The biggest reason is that every shell would have to be modified to
>>consult this file.  One thing that could potentially happen (and you
>>could write it yourself) is to modify the login script to read the file
>>and update the path variable accordingly.
>>
>>In my experience, very few shells are actually in common use.  I'll
>>venture a guess that on the vast majority of Linux systems, bash is the
>>only interactive shell that's used.
> 
> 
> Is there a problem with /etc/profile.d ?
> 
> It's easy to modify the path by dropping a pair of files in there, one
> ending in ".sh" the other ending in ".csh" 
> 


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