/etc/paths

[Luc Bourhis]

On 6 Feb 2015, at 19:21, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Shame on me! You are right. This is a new computer and /etc/paths did not
>> get copied from the old one as I thought. Sorry for the noise and thanks for
>> your patience!
> 
> /etc/paths? 
> This is the first I've seen any indication of this. Where is this documented?
> Is this the apple-approved way to add stuff to PATH for programs run by launchD?

Not launchd, no. It's for the shell and it helps with MANPATH too. "man path_helper" for the details.