-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Hanke wrote: > John schrieb: >> In order to run this app and read its manual, I need to add the relevant >> directories to PATH and MANPATH respectively, but if I use the 'export' >> command, it only adds them or the current session. >> >> How can I add these two paths permanently for all users? > > Use /etc/profile.local. > > This file does not exist in a default installation. Just create it, > write your stuff into this file and it will be picked up for all > subsequent logins of all users.
Indeed. e.g.: - ---8<---------------------------------------------- PATH=/opt/app/bin:$PATH MANPATH=/opt/app/man:$MANPATH export PATH MANPATH - ---8<---------------------------------------------- An alternative notation (but bash specific): - ---8<---------------------------------------------- export PATH=/opt/app/bin:$PATH export MANPATH=/opt/app/man:$MANPATH - ---8<---------------------------------------------- Though there's normally no need to export them, as they have already been marked as exported in /etc/profile, so this should be sufficient: - ---8<---------------------------------------------- PATH=/opt/app/bin:$PATH MANPATH=/opt/app/man:$MANPATH - ---8<---------------------------------------------- But better mark them as export again, just to make sure ;) Anyhow, another option is to put it as a separate file under /etc/profile.d/ with a filename that ends in ".sh" Basically, what /etc/profile does: - - looks for /etc/profile.local - if it exists, it sources it - - looks for files as /etc/profile.d/*.sh - and sources those that are readable The interesting thing with /etc/profile.d/*.sh is that you can select what users will get the stuff that's in there through user/group and access rights. e.g. if you want some variables/exports/functions/aliases to only be defined for a certain group of people, you can: - - create a group for them (groupadd or in yast), e.g. "staff" - - put those people in that group - - create e.g. /etc/profile.d/staff-functions.sh - - put the export/function/alias definitions in there (e.g. the PATH and MANPATH stuff as above) - - chown root:staff /etc/profile.d/staff-functions.sh - - chmod 0040 /etc/profile.d/staff-functions.sh cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFVaNZr3NMWliFcXcRAmFIAKCxUGMbF4cAxSsHb22wpRqAzVxXDQCggI23 HeLXCsWqUw9rdMQOy09pI+U= =wzKX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
