sbin and PATH

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Tue Sep 7 13:52:33 CDT 2004


On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:35:51PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> 1. Add {,/usr{,/local}}/sbin to the default PATH and be done with it

This seems to be the consensus.  Unfortunately, setting the default path is
historically a nightmare in Unix-ish systems.  I think we need to change at
least the following:

- /etc/profile
- /etc/login.defs
- other shell init files (zsh?)
- anything else?

-- 
 - mdz




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