Re: Leopard Migration Hammered Mutt

[c4c4@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Here's what I was able to come up with about path_helper:
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"In Leopard, Apple has introduced a new mechanism for managing and maintaining 
your system path ($PATH).

Previously (and in most current Linux environments) paths were managed by 
updating the PATH environment variable directly in either the system profile 
(/etc/profile) or your local profile (~/.bash_profile).

Commonly you had entries like:

  export JAVA_HOME = /usr/lib/j2se/jdk1.5.0_13/
  export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
  ...
In Leopard, you no longer have to modify the profile to make adjustments to 
system paths. Instead, you can put a simple text file containing a path entry 
(or entries) into /etc/paths.d/.

Each line in this file will be interpreted as a path and added automatically to 
the system path."

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Thanks for everyone's patient assistance.

Bill

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From: Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> On Monday, January 28 at 03:31 AM, quoth c4c4@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> >Thanks for the thorough explanation.  It helped me to grasp how the whole 
> >Path 
> thing works.
> >
> >Since I would like to add  /sw/bin to my  /etc/profile  I opened it, but 
> >only 
> discovered:
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> >
> ># System-wide .profile for sh(1)
> >
> >if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
> >     eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
> >fi
> 
> Hmmm. I don't have path_helper (I still use Tiger), but I'm willing to 
> bet that it's got some hard-coded method of guessing your path.
> 
> You have two options: either investigate path_helper and see what it's 
> doing, or resign yourself to adding /sw/bin to your path in your own 
> home directory.
> 
> ~Kyle
> - -- 
> Genius may have its limitations but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
>                                                       -- Elbert Hubbard
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