[Catching up on some old mail] On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 06:56:36PM +1000, Doug Barton wrote: > >PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:$HOME/bin Two comments: a) The sbin directories are for sysadmin functions and probably shouldn't be in users' $PATH. b) My preference is roughly the opposite order - along the lines of PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin My rationale (originating with commercial Unices) is that the /usr/local tree is a way for the sysadmin to replace standard commands with local variants. Likewise, one's personal bin directory is a way of overriding system-wide commands. > I added 'set -o emacs' to dot.shrc, it makes life much easier, I agree, but this would seem to be a religious issue: Equally good cases could presumably be made for 'set -o vi' - particularly since the default editor is set to vi. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message