Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:59:42 -0800 From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Safe to change the position of "local" in the path? Message-ID: <p0521030dba661110f16b@[165.227.249.18]>
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Greetings again. The default path in FreeBSD 4.7 is: PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/you/bin OpenSSL comes as part of FreeBSD in /usr/bin. If you add a newer version of OpenSSL, it goes into /usr/local/bin, which is later in the path and therefore not found without explicitly calling it each time. Is it safe to change the default path to: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/you/bin Is there a generic way to make things in /usr/local/bin take precedence over things in /usr/bin? For example, I remember that the Perl 5.8 port comes with a command that you can run that makes the new Perl take precedence (although I don't remember what it is). Should I be doing that (whatever it is) to make just OpenSSL take precedence, instead of changing the search path? --Paul Hoffman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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