Re: How to set system-wide PATH
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Joe Hu wrote:
> Does anybody know how to set default sytem-wide PATH? After installing
> Apache, I'd like to add /usr/local/apache/bin to the system path. I don't
> want to do it in the .bash_profile, because that only works after a shell
> session is started.
$ man bash
# see section INVOCATION for details
But for startup scripts etc., you might want to give it the absolute path
in the script for security reasons. For interactive sessions, /etc/profile
is your friend.
> P.S. I'm also sending this message to debain-isp because debian-user seems
> to have some problem. My last message never showed up on the mailing list
> website.
It takes some time until mails appear on the mailing list archives!
regards
Alex
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