Aaron Kulkis wrote: > And since top is trustworthy, just put a symbolic link in > /usr/bin to the top executable. > > Admittedly, it's a patch up, but it's superior to playing > around with the $PATH variable(*) all the time > > (*) for one, it doesn't help much for anyone who has a > currently running login with open shell windows, unless > they log off, or at the very least, shut all the shell > windows, and open up new ones.
I wasn't going to bring this up since it's more than anyone ever wanted to know about PATH, but we actually do put /usr/local/bin and /opt/bin in the path once, then make symbolic links for all the appropriate /opt binaries into /opt/bin, or /usr/local binaries into /usr/local/bin, for the reasons that you mentioned. SuSE packages tend to have these nice little scripts that drop into /etc/profile.d/, so we don't have to think much about that sort of thing anymore. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
