Here's what I was able to come up with about path_helper: ___________________________________________________________
"In Leopard, Apple has introduced a new mechanism for managing and maintaining your system path ($PATH). Previously (and in most current Linux environments) paths were managed by updating the PATH environment variable directly in either the system profile (/etc/profile) or your local profile (~/.bash_profile). Commonly you had entries like: export JAVA_HOME = /usr/lib/j2se/jdk1.5.0_13/ export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin ... In Leopard, you no longer have to modify the profile to make adjustments to system paths. Instead, you can put a simple text file containing a path entry (or entries) into /etc/paths.d/. Each line in this file will be interpreted as a path and added automatically to the system path." littlesquare.com ___________________________________________________________ Thanks for everyone's patient assistance. Bill -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday, January 28 at 03:31 AM, quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >Thanks for the thorough explanation. It helped me to grasp how the whole > >Path > thing works. > > > >Since I would like to add /sw/bin to my /etc/profile I opened it, but > >only > discovered: > >___________________________________________________________ > > > ># System-wide .profile for sh(1) > > > >if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then > > eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s` > >fi > > Hmmm. I don't have path_helper (I still use Tiger), but I'm willing to > bet that it's got some hard-coded method of guessing your path. > > You have two options: either investigate path_helper and see what it's > doing, or resign yourself to adding /sw/bin to your path in your own > home directory. > > ~Kyle > - -- > Genius may have its limitations but stupidity is not thus handicapped. > -- Elbert Hubbard > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iD8DBQFHnU7nBkIOoMqOI14RAviaAJ9YXQhzhDGqemQltboU3QEXZ4xP0QCg737a > l5bRPYgS97t6v7NtHnqGVww= > =M022 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
