On 1.8.2007, at 14.58, Elise van Looij wrote:
So that should ensure that the /opt/local/bin path always comes first, right? Your help is greatly appreciated: UNIX for Dummies (3rd edition) is not much help here.
Yes, but: apache2 directory, /opt/local/apache2/bin, is not included there. If you want to include that, you could modify your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile to include (provided that the installation is by default): PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/apache2/bin:$PATH Different shells use different inifiles, I'd say .bash_profile is the safest. You see your shell with command 'echo $SHELL'. For casual uses, which I'd expect the manual launches of Apache software to be, it could be sufficient to write the path explicitly (the tab key completes directory names). ! ! Jyrki Wahlstedt ! http://www.wahlstedt.fi/jyrki/ ! ! Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one and perhaps will. ! PGP key ID: 0x139CC386 fingerprint: F355 B46F 026C B8C1 89C0 A780 6366 EFD9 139C C386