Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:05:32 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Search Path in bash2 Message-ID: <403FB11C.8060308@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <200402271741.i1RHfuB7095761@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200402271741.i1RHfuB7095761@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Martin McCormick wrote:
> I am trying to modify the execution path on a FreeBSD system
>for all the bash2 users on that system. The man page says that
>
>
>
>> default path is system-dependent, and is set by the
>> administrator who installs bash. A common value is
>> ``/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:.''.
>>
>>
>
> How do I set, or in this case, reset it?
>
>
The man page also says:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-
active shell with the --login option, it first reads and
executes com-
mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After
reading
that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and
~/.profile,
in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first
one that
exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used
when the
shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
But so far as I have seen, at least on FreeBSD, /etc/profile does not
generally contain path info. This is normally set in ~/.profile and the
default contains something like this:
# remove /usr/games and /usr/X11R6/bin if you want
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/
bin:$HOME/bin; export PATH
So my guess is that to conform closely to this way of doing things, add
the path to each user's ~/.profile and also to
/usr/share/skel/dot.profile so it is there immediately for new users.
Alternatively, unless someone contradicts this, the man page seems to
suggest you could add a path to /etc/profile and it would then be
system-wide. I have never done this myself, though, so can't vouch for
it whereas I have edited ~/.profile frequently.
HTH.
PWR.
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