I really would like the ability to have the default path set in a file somewhere - we could have this in /etc/profile or /etc/login for example as it stands...
The getusershell function (and /etc/shells file) is a good example of how this kind of functionality could be done, but using paths instead - login apps would need modification to support this, but it would go a long way to solving the PATH-hell that people always complain about on Solaris. Thanks, Darren. Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Rainer Orth wrote: >>> Failing that work, the documentation should be in a place that will be >>> immediately available. One of the biggest problems we've found with >>> /usr/sfw is that hardly anyone knows it exists or can find it. If man >>> pages were available for utilities that specified their paths, those >>> utilities would be findable (at least, so the theory goes). >> >> ... but the same issue applies to /usr/openwin, /usr/dt and /usr/X11, so >> this shouldn't be a showstopper. > > The desktop login programs have traditionally set MANPATH in desktop > sessions > to include /usr/openwin & /usr/dt - which isn't the right solution (a > default > man path configured in a system wide file like the BSD's would be > better), but > is the way these were handled in the past. >
