From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: jan.h.d@swipnet.se
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, darren.hoo@gmail.com
Subject: Re: About PATH environment variable on OSX
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:01:53 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130412.170153.119810367274111335.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1E6BEEA-A579-4091-B5F8-EA46E1DD5A32@swipnet.se>
[Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> (2013-04-12 05:05:19 UTC)]
> The way to this on newer OSX is to create /etc/launchd.conf and put something like:
>
> setenv PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
>
> in there. I have not tried this myself.
>
> I will test it and fix the documentation.
I think it's better to use /etc/launchd-user.conf instead. This will set PATH for all users. If you use /etc/launchd.conf, you are potentially setting the PATH variable for a whole host of system processes, and this could cause unwanted side effects.
- Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-12 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-07 18:19 About PATH environment variable on OSX Darren Hoo
2013-04-12 5:05 ` Jan Djärv
2013-04-12 12:39 ` Piotr Kalinowski
2013-04-12 14:07 ` Peter Vasil
2013-04-13 1:24 ` James Felix Black
2013-04-13 12:33 ` Piotr Kalinowski
2013-04-12 15:01 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2013-04-13 4:59 ` Josh
2013-04-13 12:41 ` Piotr Kalinowski
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