Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 01:52:37 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@gmi.net> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/root dot.cshrc dot.profile Message-ID: <19990428015237.U1229@gmi.net> In-Reply-To: <199904280630.IAA16790@greenpeace.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:30:27AM %2B0200 References: <68563.925278878@zippy.cdrom.com> <199904280624.XAA03206@apollo.backplane.com> <199904280630.IAA16790@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:30:27AM +0200, a little birdie told me
that Mark Murray remarked
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > :> I also end up adding /usr/local/sbin to the path every time I build a new
> > :> system. Would it cause problems to add this as well?
> > :
> > :Hmmm. I guess not. Any objections out there?
> > :
> > :- Jordan
> >
> > I find myself doing this too. /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin,
> > /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/X11R6/bin. I think it's a good
> > default to make.
>
> I do this as a matter of course, too.
I'd feel a little leery of it, just because I'm not sure anything under
/usr/local/ should be in the path by default. On the flip side, I do
most of my 'root' work on my workstation as toor, who uses tcsh, and...
mortis:/usr/local/etc
root% grep path ~/.tcshrc | grep "local/{"
set path=(/usr/local/{bin,sbin} /usr/{bin,sbin} /{bin,sbin})
I certainly would reccoment the opposite order (as Matt has above) for
the default; I do this for reasons of program overriding myself.
My gut reaction is 'eek! no! bad!', but I don't have any good reasons
for this other than various hysterias.
(The extra /{ spec on the grep is because there are 13 instances of 'set
path' in my .tcshrc, since it does all sorts of cool funky stuff. See my
projects page on my webpage for the full monstrosity)
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