Re: Search Path in bash2
I am quoting one response I received, but my thanks to everyone who answered. I went to the system in question and figured I would methodically try every suggestion I received until I either exhausted all possibilities or something worked. I was hoping for a global solution that would not require modifying each user's .bash_profile, and it turns out that /etc/profile appears to do the trick. After one false start of setting $path instead of $PATH, I added the following line which I have broken for readability: PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin: /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/etc:/usr/X11R6/bin:~/bin This appears to correctly modify the behavior in the desired manner. Again, many thanks to all who answered. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group Peter Risdon writes: When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior. But so far as I have seen, at least on FreeBSD, /etc/profile does not generally contain path info. This is normally set in ~/.profile and the default contains something like this: # remove /usr/games and /usr/X11R6/bin if you want PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/ usr/X11R6/ bin:$HOME/bin; export PATH So my guess is that to conform closely to this way of doing things, add the path to each user's ~/.profile and also to /usr/share/skel/dot.profile so it is there immediately for new users. Alternatively, unless someone contradicts this, the man page seems to suggest you could add a path to /etc/profile and it would then be system-wide. I have never done this myself, though, so can't vouch for it whereas I have edited ~/.profile frequently. HTH. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Search Path in bash2
Peter Risdon wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: I am trying to modify the execution path on a FreeBSD system for all the bash2 users on that system. The man page says that default path is system-dependent, and is set by the administrator who installs bash.A common value is ``/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:.''. How do I set, or in this case, reset it? The man page also says: When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior. But so far as I have seen, at least on FreeBSD, /etc/profile does not generally contain path info. This is normally set in ~/.profile and the default contains something like this: # remove /usr/games and /usr/X11R6/bin if you want PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/ bin:$HOME/bin; export PATH So my guess is that to conform closely to this way of doing things, add the path to each user's ~/.profile and also to /usr/share/skel/dot.profile so it is there immediately for new users. Alternatively, unless someone contradicts this, the man page seems to suggest you could add a path to /etc/profile and it would then be system-wide. I have never done this myself, though, so can't vouch for it whereas I have edited ~/.profile frequently. HTH. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can add any environment vars you'd like to /etc/profile- this is still the preferred method for some cases...for example, if you're the sysadmin for a project group that all needs additional software that may have been installed in the /usr/local/somewhere/bin tree, instead of binaries in /usr/local/bin. So if it's assumed that all users will need a given PATH, add it to /etc/profile. If it's a per user addition, add it in ~/.bash_profile.. There are a mixture of other ways to do this, with the 'new thing' being application dependent env vars (LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH, etc)- in Linux, this is generally done via /etc/profile.d/appname.sh, but is not generally used for correcting user-owned variables. So in other words, /etc/profile is fine ;-) Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Search Path in bash2
I am trying to modify the execution path on a FreeBSD system for all the bash2 users on that system. The man page says that default path is system-dependent, and is set by the administrator who installs bash. A common value is ``/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:.''. How do I set, or in this case, reset it? There are a number of profiles and configuration files that look like they might work such as login.conf, but I see no change in the $PATH I get and I didn't run across anything in the port of bash that seemed to set a path. The path I do get is perfectly good, but I also want users to get a shot at /usr/local/etc which isn't in the default path. Thanks a lot. I almost think I am loosing my magic touch. I can't find the global PATH setter for bash2 anywhere. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Search Path in bash2
Martin McCormick wrote: I am trying to modify the execution path on a FreeBSD system for all the bash2 users on that system. The man page says that default path is system-dependent, and is set by the administrator who installs bash. A common value is ``/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:.''. How do I set, or in this case, reset it? The man page also says: When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior. But so far as I have seen, at least on FreeBSD, /etc/profile does not generally contain path info. This is normally set in ~/.profile and the default contains something like this: # remove /usr/games and /usr/X11R6/bin if you want PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/ bin:$HOME/bin; export PATH So my guess is that to conform closely to this way of doing things, add the path to each user's ~/.profile and also to /usr/share/skel/dot.profile so it is there immediately for new users. Alternatively, unless someone contradicts this, the man page seems to suggest you could add a path to /etc/profile and it would then be system-wide. I have never done this myself, though, so can't vouch for it whereas I have edited ~/.profile frequently. HTH. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
