From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 5 5:24:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from colin.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FB4315090 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 05:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lutz@muc.de) Received: from tavari.muc.de ([193.149.49.22]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <140570-2>; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 14:24:17 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tavari.muc.de (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA12325; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 12:01:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from UNKNOWN(192.168.42.202), claiming to be "ripley.tavari.muc.de" via SMTP by morranon.tavari.muc.de, id smtpdV12323; Sat Jun 5 12:01:24 1999 Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 12:00:54 +0200 From: Lutz Albers To: Matt Behrens , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH2 (in FreeBSD-Questions) Message-ID: <871118459.928584054@ripley.tavari.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Originator-Info: login-id=lutz; server=mail X-Mailer: Mulberry (Win32) [1.4.3, s/n U-301229] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --On Freitag, 4. Juni 1999, 18:04 +0200 Matt Behrens wrote: > [ This is not really -security related anymore. Can't think of a ] > [ good place to move it so followups are directed to -chat. ] > > On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > : What does a typical path variable look like on your systems??? Long > : paths are bad for shells. Yea, I know, the hashing stuff should keep > : a single copy of a shell pretty quick, but every time you fork off > : another one your going to have to go hash the path list. > > Well, why not do what I do -- I have /opt/packagename/bin, > /opt/packagename/sbin, etc. and I simply do this after installing > a package: > > cd /opt/bin;ln -s ../*/bin/* . Do you know the Modules package (www.modules.org). This might spare you the symlink game. You specify which environment variables are to be changed and then just say 'module add ' or 'module rm '. Granted, you need a patched shell to support the resulting long PATH variable, but on the plus side it gives you the possibility to install and use multiple version of a package without major problems (i.e. different gtk versions) ciao lutz -- Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de, pgp key available from Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message