From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 19:13:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cdale3.midwest.net (cdale3.midwest.net [208.235.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313B7158B7 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 19:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Received: from supplies (parrothd.midwest.net [208.235.2.231]) by cdale3.midwest.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA18274; Wed, 5 May 1999 21:13:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199905060213.VAA18274@cdale3.midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@mail.midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 21:19:55 -0500 To: Rick Hamell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Path(es) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe it depends on the shell, here's an example from my .login in your home directory... 9:13pm@parrothd~>more .login # $Id: dot.login,v 1.7.2.1 1997/02/23 20:57:42 joerg Exp $ # # .login - csh login script, read by login shell, # after `.cshrc' at login. # # see also csh(1), environ(7). # set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin $HOME/bin) setenv MANPATH "/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man" At 06:28 PM 5/5/99 -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > How do I check/add to my paths. I hope I'm using the right >terminology. I.e. / and /usr/local/bin are checked for files, how do I add >another directory such as /home/whoever? Jonathan E. Lyons FreeBSD parrothd@midwest.net MCP, MCSE, A+ Certified http://parrothd.midwest.net/ ICQ # 14226912 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message