PATH HOWTO

Esa Turtiainen etu@dna.fi

1. Introduction

2. Copyright

3. General

4. Init

5. Login

6. Shells

• 6.1 bash
• 6.2 tcsh

7. Changing user ID

• 7.1 su
• 7.2 sudo

8. Network servers

• 8.1 inetd
• 8.2 rsh
• 8.3 rlogin
• 8.4 telnet
• 8.5 ssh

9. XFree86

• 9.1 XDM
• 9.2 xterm -ls
• 9.3 Window manager menus and buttons

10. Delayed commands cron and at

• 10.1 cron
• 10.2 at

11. Some examples

• 11.1 magicfilter
• 11.2 Printing from X applications

12. Security concerns

13. How to debug problems?

14. Some strategies to get the same path for all the users

15. Acknowledgements