[TxMt] Possible path issues?

Mat Schaffer schapht at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 13:25:44 UTC 2007


On Jun 9, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Robin Houston wrote:
> My question would be, why do you need to set the values in .profile  
> as well? All I can think of is that you sometimes ssh into the  
> machine, and you want the environment variables to be set when you  
> log in via ssh. If that's it, and you don't want to redundantly re- 
> parse environment.plist, couldn't you just do

Because I assumed that bash didn't honor environment.plist.  Turns  
out it does but the default /etc/profile overrides it.  Good job,  
apple....

Thanks for the SSH tip and sending me down the path of poking at my  
profile.  A slight modification of /etc/profile and all is in order. :)

-Mat




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