On May 23, 2012, at 5:19 p.m., Josie Reinhardt wrote:

> Still at least now /opt/local/bin are in front...  but where did the
> other stuff come from???


The system-level shell startup files (/etc/{profile,zshenv,csh.login}) execute 
the /usr/libexec/path_helper utility, which sets the initial ${PATH}.

When constructing ${PATH}, path_helper consults the file /etc/paths and the 
contents of /etc/paths.d/.

Try "man path_helper" for more.

vq

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