/etc/profile and PATH

Gary W. Swearingen garys at opusnet.com
Wed Aug 31 14:51:30 GMT 2005


Miguel Cárdenas <mfcardenas at prodigy.net.mx> writes:

> I tried to setup PATH in ~/.profile and now is updated but how can I setup 
> this variable system wide? specifically want to add the Qt and MySQL binary 
> directories to the PATH...

Yeah, "man login.conf", but it's heavy reading which I suspect many
people avoid by over-riding whatever it sets in the startup scripts of
the shells they use.  So man sh, man csh, etc.

You're probably looking for /etc/profile, at least.


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