Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 12:00:54 +0200 From: Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de> To: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH2 (in FreeBSD-Questions) Message-ID: <871118459.928584054@ripley.tavari.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906041159210.22071-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com>
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--On Freitag, 4. Juni 1999, 18:04 +0200 Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> 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 <package>' or 'module rm <package>'. 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 <http://www.pgp.net>; 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
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