Using the cdrecord file

Aart Koelewijn aart at mtack.xs4all.nl
Thu Jul 9 13:06:19 UTC 2009


On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:53:41 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

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> David Fox wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Karl F. Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>        I want to use the software cdrecord as a user. It was a real
>>>        surprise
>>> to find that everything was put under the /opt/ directory. It is a
>>> fact
>> 
>> There's nothing wrong with using /opt. However, it's mostly used for
>> largish third-party stuff, and cdrecord wouldn't qualify. Having /opt
>> in addition to /usr/local means one more entry to search in your
>> ${PATH} but that's hardly asking a lot. On the other hand, I haven't
>> used /opt for anything in quite a while -- although when I did an
>> install (of Mandrake) some years ago, I allocated some space for /opt,
>> figuring I would make use for it. Eventually, it got used for something
>> else.
>> 
>>>        Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>> 
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> 	I poked around and could not find out how to put /opt on my search
> path. It IS odd that I have Google's picasa and google-earth both  under
> /opt and they both work fine.
> 
> 	So I made a link to a file cdrecord in /usr/bin/ and I do search 
that!
> 
> 73 Karl

Karl, your PATH is set in /etc/login.defs, you can change it there for 
all your users (use sudo). For one user you can change it in ~/.profile

Aart






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