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I'm running Tomcat on OS X Server 10.6.6 under the normal Web component that comes with the OS. This has worked fine so far, but I need to add some entries to the $PATH environment variable for programs that I want access to from the web server (more specifically, I'm running Hudson under Tomcat which needs access to build tools that I have installed).

Tomcat and the Web component seems to run under the user _appserver which has a different $PATH than the administrator account.

What's the proper way to add a global entry to the $PATH in OS X Server for the Web component? Preferable it should be done only once so that both the _appserver and Administrator user can access the same $PATH.

EDIT: Adding the path to /etc/paths or /etc/paths.d/somefile didn't work. Tomcat and Hudson does still not see those directories.

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You can set global paths in MacOS X by adding a file to /etc/paths.d with the path you wish to add.

This change will affect all the users on your system, so it covers exactly what you're looking for.

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I added a simple project in Hudson to see which paths it had. It only showed the path /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin even though there are many more added in /etc/paths.d for example. They show up for normal users but not Hudson. – Adam Lindberg Feb 9 '11 at 8:25
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