After talking with Phil & Jeff I've decided to:
(a) document the change :)
(b) use the distro's default and append with $PATH
This does no worse than the distro and possibly has dups but it appears
that Csh's don't care about dups and Sh's will....well it won't be too bad.
My attempts to remove dups would likely cause more of a performance hit
than a benifit so they heck with them.
Hunh, all that and it's a stupid append. :)
--tjn
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Thomas Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Research Associate (865) 576-4184
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Thomas Naughton wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to decide which of the following methods would be less heavy
> handed or more admin friendly for path modification (root's path :) ).
>
> If a PATH line is in root's .dot files (.bashrc, .tcshrc, .cshrc) and
> doesn't not contain a $PATH or equivalent entry
>
> {Method 1}
> - suck off the value being set. Search $PATH for existence of these
> "hardcoded" values and append to the front any that don't already
> exist, e.g., PATH=$unique_items:$PATH
>
> {Method 2}
> - have a hardcoded set of standard root path items (see below) and append
> these to the front of the PATH line followed by $PATH. It would likely
> make since to remove any existing occurance of these items to reduce cruft.
>
> Common list of root paths from RH9.0 & MDK9.0 .dot files:
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin: \
> /usr/X11R6/bin
>
> There are pros/cons to both approaches and both are about the same to do as
> far as implementation so it's more a matter of what's less intrusive or
> more expected behaviour?
>
> Also, FWIW, the reason for the required $PATH in root's area is that OSCAR
> puts things lots of things in /opt areas and they're not typically in the
> search path. (And MDK hardcode's root's path w/o any inclusion of $PATH.)
>
> Thanks,
> --tjn
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