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

OK, I was trying not to show my ignorance on this matter but I guess 
I'll have to by asking some direct questions.  I don't understand the 
/etc/profile.d mechanism.  When do these scripts get run?  Automaticly 
during boot, or when some app intentionally runs them, at some run 
level, when?  If I put a script that sets and EXPORTS PATH there does it 
get run automaticly and will bash use that path?

Regards

DSP

John wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2003 15:24, Göran 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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