You can change path info in /etc/profile to make it system-wide.
As for ~/.profile, I tried all the shells listed in /etc/shells, and none
of them ran the .profile I created as a test.
I don't see why UNIX like systems have to have so many bin (and other)
directories. Let's see, there is /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin,
/opt/local/bin, the same variants for sbin, plus executables in
/usr/libexec, /usr/local/libexec and (for shame) /etc.
Sheesh!
Thankfully someone invented the 'which' and 'whereis' commands.
Regards,
JJ
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On Jul 14, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Ryan Raaum wrote:
Pathing works most of the time, but I had some problems with RadRails/
Eclipse because it doesn't appear to honor pathing provided
in .profile or .login. Which prompted the linking solution. It's a
little ugly and might go away with future updates, but it was about
all I had left for a few programs that ignored my personal path
information.
-Mat
It's in our blood. Programmers like to categorize things. The downside is that a lot of apps like to tread all over that categorization. Ah... life.
-Mat
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On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:29 PM, John Johnson wrote:
You can change path info in /etc/profile to make it system-wide.
As for ~/.profile, I tried all the shells listed in /etc/shells, and none
of them ran the .profile I created as a test.
I don't see why UNIX like systems have to have so many bin (and other)
directories. Let's see, there is /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin,
/opt/local/bin, the same variants for sbin, plus executables in
/usr/libexec, /usr/local/libexec and (for shame) /etc.
Paraphrasing from the green book (LAH) and adding a last one of my own:
* /bin -- commands needed for minimal system operability
* /sbin -- commands for booting, repairing, or recovering the system
* /usr/local/bin -- local executables (site-specific)
* /usr/local/sbin -- statically-linked local (site-specific) system
maintenance commands
* /usr/sbin -- less essential commands for system admin and repair
* ~/bin -- your own commands 
---John
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On 7/18/06, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:29 PM, John Johnson wrote:
> You can change path info in /etc/profile to make it system-wide.
> As for ~/.profile, I tried all the shells listed in /etc/shells,
> and none
> of them ran the .profile I created as a test.
>
> I don't see why UNIX like systems have to have so many bin (and other)
> directories. Let's see, there is /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin,
> /opt/local/bin, the same variants for sbin, plus executables in
> /usr/libexec, /usr/local/libexec and (for shame) /etc.
It's in our blood. Programmers like to categorize things. The
downside is that a lot of apps like to tread all over that
categorization. Ah... life.
-Mat