Oscar A. Valdez wrote: >My installation of fedora-ds-1.0.1-1.RHEL4 puts executables >in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin/ and libraries >in /opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib/. > >What would you all recomend as a "proper" way of modifying the $PATH >variable and of linking to the DS libraries? > > If you don't mind overriding the system ldap commands, which are normally located in /usr/bin, you could do $ export PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin:$PATH $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/fedora-ds/shared/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH Alternatively, you could go to the directory /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin, and run the command line interface: $ cd /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin; ./ldapsearch <options> This way, the library path is take care of by rpath. If you don't want to make the fedora-ds command line utilities conflict with the system ones, you may want to make a script file (for each command) and set the <script_file_path> to your path... --noriko -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3170 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20060918/f7556dc7/attachment.bin