Re: X PATH variable
Re: X PATH variable
- Subject: Re: X PATH variable
- From: Eugene Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 16:39:11 -0600
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:04:56PM -0800, Justin Walker wrote:
:
: On Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003, at 13:21 US/Pacific, Doug McNutt wrote:
:
: >At 20:09 +0100 1/15/03, Martin Costabel wrote:
: >>
: >>There is the ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist that can be used, but it
: >>will give the same environment variables to *all* applications which
: >>can pose problems.
: >
: >Not quite. Terminal, when executed in login mode executes /etc/.login
: >which overlays whatever $PATH you have set up in the .plist.
:
: I don't think Terminal reads that file (in fact, I don't think there is
: such a file).
Yup, Terminal doesn't. And /etc/.login is a Solaris thing, not OS X.
: I believe that the shell that Terminal invokes for each
: window will read its own startup files, as specified in the individual
: man pages.
It may also be set to run /usr/bin/login.
--
Eugene Lee
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