From: Dolazy on
On 12 feb, 14:15, Dave Seaman <dsea...(a)no.such.host> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:01:58 +0000 (UTC), Dave Seaman wrote:
> > The one you should be using is /usr/sbin/periodic. That's the one that's
> > in your default PATH, as set by /etc/profile. By the way,
> > /private/etc/profile is the very same file as /etc/profile (not a copy of
> > the file, but the very same file, since /private/etc is a symbolic link
> > to /etc). It's not possible for it to set a different PATH.
>
> Actually, it's the other way around; /etc is a symbolic link to
> /private/etc.
>
> --
> Dave Seaman
> U.S. Court of Appeals to review three issues
> concerning case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
> <http://www.mumia2000.org/>

Interesting to know. Actually I didn't know about /etc/profile either,
only ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile.. There's still a lot to learn for
me, but it's a fun exploration.