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Date:      Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:52:19 -0700
From:      garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        =?iso-8859-1?q?Miguel_C=E1rdenas?= <mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/profile and PATH
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In-Reply-To: <200508310137.46049.mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx> ( =?iso-8859-1?q?Miguel_C=E1rdenas's_message_of?= "Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:37:45 -0500")
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Miguel Cárdenas <mfcardenas@prodigy.net.mx> writes:

> I tried to setup PATH in ~/.profile and now is updated but how can I setup 
> this variable system wide? specifically want to add the Qt and MySQL binary 
> directories to the PATH...

Yeah, "man login.conf", but it's heavy reading which I suspect many
people avoid by over-riding whatever it sets in the startup scripts of
the shells they use.  So man sh, man csh, etc.

You're probably looking for /etc/profile, at least.



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