From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 16: 0:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A7B14C95 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 16:00:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13162; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 16:24:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 16:24:36 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Marc Wandschneider Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to put system paths, etc ... In-Reply-To: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C2233054975@akira.lanfear.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Marc Wandschneider wrote: > > The following things/variables need to be set up when I start up > my system: > > PATH needs to be set > MANPATH needs to be set > ldconfig needs to be run > > Question: Where is the best place to do this? I'd rather not > do it for every single user's .login file, because that would be > annoying, and ldconfig can't be run except as su. > > However, in /etc, it's not obvious where this stuff goes. I see > some path stuff being set up in /etc/rc, but there appears to be a > manpath.config file, although no documentation on it. I see no place > where I'd run ldconfig. > > Any suggestions as to what would work out best for me? /etc/login.conf man 5 login.conf enjoy, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message