Re: Adding paths..?


Subject: Re: Adding paths..?
From: Alan Orth (aorth@mac.com)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2001 - 10:25:37 MDT


On 8/11/01 5:29 AM, "Sean O. Denney" <sdenney@cise.ufl.edu> wrote:

> Edit your /etc/profile and add the paths you need to PATH
>
> --- Sean

In my /etc/profile I noticed the following:

PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"

Is that where I add /sbin, or any other directory I want to store other
programs??

>> I noticed that some commands that aren't in /bin aren't excecuted unless you
>> give a direct path...
>>
>> Can I fix this? I know that I can make aliases to do stuff, like hxd for
>> example, which is in a different path. But that only last for one terminal
>> session.
>>
>> Thanks, guys.
>>

Thanks, again.

-- 
Alan Orth
aorth@mac.com
Macintosh überhacker extraordinaire



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