From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 14:51:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E31EA16A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:51:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9386D43D46 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:51:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A3ECC521008A; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:51:24 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7VEqakO005431; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j7VEqJKg005426; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Miguel_C=E1rdenas?= References: <200508310137.46049.mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx> From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:52:19 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200508310137.46049.mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx> ( =?iso-8859-1?q?Miguel_C=E1rdenas's_message_of?= "Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:37:45 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/profile and PATH X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:51:30 -0000 Miguel Cárdenas writes: > I tried to setup PATH in ~/.profile and now is updated but how can I setup > this variable system wide? specifically want to add the Qt and MySQL binary > directories to the PATH... Yeah, "man login.conf", but it's heavy reading which I suspect many people avoid by over-riding whatever it sets in the startup scripts of the shells they use. So man sh, man csh, etc. You're probably looking for /etc/profile, at least.