Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 15:09:30 UTC 2008


Izhar Firdaus wrote:
> 2008/4/24 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
>>  Actually, this is not true.  I added it to my PATH for years since starting
>> on RHL-4.  But at some point in using Fedora, I stopped because  I gave up
>> on the hassle of adding a custom PATH to /etc/profile.d/ every time I
>> installed a new box.  Additionally, I now have more shell accounts on boxes
>> that I only drop into once in a while when something's wrong that I've
>> learned to accept the constant annoyance of not having .*/sbin in my PATH.
> 
> i put 'export PATH="$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin"' in my ~/.bashrc ...
> reinstall, whatever, nothing changes as long as i keep my home folder
> ..
> 
> (another trick of mine .. a rpm, eg: mycustomizations.rpm to save time
> for certain stuff outside the home folder)

Having to do that is a pretty clear statement that the defaults are wrong.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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