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

John <spam-awV0wQp4Vu3DYUAvPcDoSaaDwS/[email protected]> Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:23:30 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.taroon
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On Thursday 11 September 2003 15:24, GÃ¶ran Uddeborg wrote:
> Ed Wilts writes:
> > The biggest reason is that every shell would have to be modified to
> > consult this file.
>
> Not really.  You could have code in the startup scripts which used
> this file.  If for example, /etc/defaultpath contains just a
> colon-separated path, you could add
>
>     PATH=`cat /etc/defaultpath`

You would need to take care with that, because other scripts in /etc/profile.d 
may change PATH.

You need to split /etc/defaultpath, and only add to PATH those bits that are 
necessary.

RH, but not user sites, could modify /etc/proiile & /etc/csh.cshrc to do that 
before looking in /etc/profile.d



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