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[Edward Dunagin]

On 4/21/07, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 rfunk at funknet.net wrote:
> > On April 20, 6:51 pm Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
> > > /etc/profile is historically the place to profile your environment.
> > > $HOME/.profile is historically the place for the end user to have
> > > final say about how things will look.
> >
> > This was broken when the C shell came along, even before X.
>
> You are correct!
> And I realize now that I left out of my reply
> some C shell bits that I included in another post here.
>
> > And I'd argue that the C shell actually did things right,
> > fixing the Bourne profile breakage.
>
> Which again would call in what I mentioned before about hooking
> C shell profiling with Bourne variant profiling.  The point is not
> that either is better than the other but that we should have a
> common ground for profiling.
>
> [some stuff omitted for brevity]
>
> > > That way,  local profiling was
> > > ALWAYS run no matter how people signed on:  TELNET, local, X,
> > > anything.
> >
> > Unless they run a C shell or something else incompatible with Bourne and
> > profile.
>
> Correct again.
> So run C shell through a Bourne profiler or vice versa.
> Then run X (any desktop) through your chosen textual login profiler.
>
> > Not to mention some of the things that get put in the profile because
> > people assume it only runs upon textual login.
>
> Too much is assumed.  You are right.
> No reason why all of these things cannot be coordinated.
> But too few of us have ASKED.  (So hats off to whoever asked,
> because by now I have forgotten and others may have too!)
>
> More in a following note.

Maybe it is that I am getting thick<g>. I STILL do not know how to
change the PATH for root or user. Would someone enlighten me?

Thanks.........................ed
Edward Dunagin-Dunigan-Dunnigan
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