The default version of any Solaris command for normal users should be found in /usr/bin.
Alternate (incompatible) versions of commands w/ the same names will be found in /usr/<standard name>/bin. Any user wishing 1 from column a, 2 from column b, etc, is heartily encouraged to create ~/bin wherein he is perfectly free to create a forest of symbolic links to alternate versions (or his own special versions). He can then lead with that in his path and follow it with the whatever default search order he wishes. The default versions of Solaris commands will be found in /usr/bin. Choosing a weird directory path to reach a command has been found (in Solaris) to be a very poor method of doing the following: 1) "protecting" users from commands that have different support levels. 2) Indicating which group inside Sun made the software 3) Recording for all time the internecine conflicts in AT & T during SVR4 development. 4) separating commands by the type of user (developer, non-priv'd administrator, etc). My path: /bin:/usr/sbin:/home/barts/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ccs/bin: /usr/sfw/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sadm/admin/bin:/usr/openwin/demo This is silly. Why do this to ourselves? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
