Hi Steve,
All bourne/korn/bash shells run etc/profile -- which sets the PATH.
(csh/tcsh use /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/csh.login instead). The various
shells then run files such as ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.tcshrc,
~/.cshrc, and others. See the man pages for your favorite shell for
details.
GUI programs do not use these files for setting their environment
variables. See Apple's technote
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html for that. Also, a
handy program called RCEnvironment that makes it easier can be found at
http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCEnvironment/.
HTH,
Travis
Steve Young wrote:
> Mike Vinca, you were correct I was using Korn at the time. But I can
> use bash. I checked out the website you suggested and I found that
> there should be a .bash_profile configuration file in my home
> directory, however there isn't one in there. I looked around for it
> and I can't find it. So I'm assuming from Will's response that I can
> just put one in my home directory.
>
> Will Gilbert, Thank you for the Shells.zip, this appears to build the
> files .bash-profile, .bashrc, and .bash_logout in my home directory.
> Being new to Mac I wanted to know before I use them, if this might
> cause my default PATH to be overwritten?
>
> Darren Clarke, thanks for the zsh suggestion. I will take a look at
> that shell. I think I'm going to try to stick with the default shell
> 'bash' atm, but once I get settled in, I'll take a look at that one
> since it's new to me.
>
> Thanks Bill, Rick and Jerry. btw I did check out your suggestions too,
> to see it work, and you do have to click on the lock Jerry. Now that I
> know about those, if I do later decide to use zsh or ksh(again) I'll
> use that little trick.
>
> However, before I use Will's nifty little scripts, I'm still wondering
> where the current PATH environmental variable is set since I was
> unable to find any type of .profile file anywhere. Is there a
> unilatteral user profile file somewhere to set the default
> environmental varibles?
>
>
> btw, thx for the help, I've looked around and have not found a Mac OS
> X sys admin mailing list. I did join the ADC and downloaded Xcode, but
> maybe I haven't looked around enough in there yet to find a more
> appropriate place for these system questions. I also checked out a
> Wrox Xcode book which emphasizes that for an IDE, Xcode may not be the
> best application for Java. It mentioned Eclipse. I'm not ready for an
> IDE yet, but I am curious as to what you guys use.
>
> Steve
> New to Mac w/Mac Pro
> New to Java w/Wrox 'Beginning Java 2'
>
>
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