Appending to users PATH variable.

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Hi All

Just looking for some guidance on the above. I have an application that I have packaged but it requires the users $PATH variable to be edited. Just wondering how to go about doing this. I don't want to export my packaging machines .profile and add it to the package for the users machines, as they might have variables written from other installations and I don't want to overwrite them.

So want to see if there is anything in the JSS that can possibly push out variables? We use DMG's in our environment so cannot run a post install script to add it. The users also want to use the application through command line from Terminal so I cannot even write a launcher.app to write the variable then launch the application.

So, does anyone have any ideas on how to handle user variables?

Thanks, 
Jim

cvgs · Accepted Answer

Have a look at /etc/paths.d/, that should be all you need:ls -l /etc/paths.d/-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  107  7 Feb 22:49 com.apple.servercat /etc/paths.d/com.apple.server /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/bin/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin

Macdonald · Answer

Thanks a million, thats helped.

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