Re: general method to set the $PATH
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 05:00:24PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> In the past I have seen a proposal for /etc/environment. I would really
> like it if you could setup any environment variable here (that can then
> be overriden by the users startup file). That way I can also set MAIL,
> MAILDIR, and MAILTMP to good values for my Qmail setup as well as insert
> /usr/local/bin in everybodies Path without worrying about what files I
> may have missed.
Agreed. This would be great.
> Somewhere, just recently, I think I saw a thread where people where
> against the idea, because it was incompatable with the rest of Unix. I
> strongly disagree. If it is really that important, it should be easy to
> enable/disable the mechanism as required.
If you really wanted to jump through hoops, you could always leave
/etc/enviroment empty, right?
Mike Stone
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