On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:29 PM, John Johnson wrote:
> You can change path info in /etc/profile to make it system-wide.
> As for ~/.profile, I tried all the shells listed in /etc/shells,  
> and none
> of them ran the .profile I created as a test.
>
> I don't see why UNIX like systems have to have so many bin (and other)
> directories. Let's see, there is /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin,
> /opt/local/bin, the same variants for sbin, plus executables in
> /usr/libexec, /usr/local/libexec and (for shame) /etc.

It's in our blood.  Programmers like to categorize things.  The  
downside is that a lot of apps like to tread all over that  
categorization.  Ah... life.
-Mat