December 4, 2008 10:09:38 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Desktop defaults for open Solaris
Gary Mills wrote:
> We change /etc/profile and /etc/.login to extend PATH and MANPATH to include
> all available software. In particular, /usr/sfw/bin, /opt/SUN
William Yang wrote:
> Is setting MANPATH only unnecessary on OpenSolaris, or have the same
> changes been backported to Solaris 10?
I have no idea if it was backported to Solaris 10. It is present in
Solaris Express and OpenSolaris 2008.x though.
--
Shawn Walker
Gary Mills wrote:
> We change /etc/profile and /etc/.login to extend PATH and MANPATH to include
> all available software. In particular, /usr/sfw/bin, /opt/SUNWspro/bin,
> /usr/ccs/bin,
> and /usr/dt/bin need to be added to $PATH. We arrange for /etc/profile to be
> sourced
Setting MANPATH sh
One thing that we (a medium-sized university) have done for some time to
Solaris desktops is to set up reasonable defaults for Gnome facilities. This is
critical because new users will stop using them immediately if they can't figure
out how to use the desktops. Our policy is to make minimal chan
