On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:57:38PM +0200, Erik Wikström wrote: > I just bootstrapped pkgsrc and thought that I was smart when I modified > /etc/login.conf to add /usr/pkg/bin to $PATH only to spend an hour or > two trying to find out why the path wasn't set. Reading a number of man- > pages and trying using different login-classes and ~/.login_conf. After > some time I remembered to check the shell configuration files and now I > wonder, why is the $PATH set first using login and then in .profile and > .cshrc?
login.conf is just the fallback default value. It's the smallest sensible default path :-) Joerg
