Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:46:46 +0100 (CET) From: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> To: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: CUPS, initial PATH environment Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0902091345490.7603@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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If one installs CUPS as the printing system, one must use the /usr/local/bin versions of lp, lpr, lpq and lprm instead of the FreeBSD versions in /usr/bin, otherwise you get errors when using the command line interface... I could rename /usr/bin/lp, lpr, lpq, lprm to e.g. lp.origfreebsd, etc.. forcing the use of the /usr/local/bin versions but this would oblige me to do that again after every FreeSBD upgrade. Or I could put /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in the path. Two questions: - is this a save thing to do (won't other things go wrong then?) - if OK to do that, where can I change the path for every user, whatever shell (csh, sh, bash, tcsh, rbash) he uses? /etc/profile, /etc/csh.* start-up files are shell-specific and as yet distributed, only contain outcommented information, yet a newly created user (whether using csh of bash) has a following path / PATH set up: /sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin Where is this path/PATH being set i.e. where can it be altered?
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