On 05/01/2012 02:11 PM, Stroller wrote: > So /etc/profile contains the following message: > > # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user > # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/. > export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano} > export PAGER=${PAGER:-/usr/bin/less} > > Therefore I have created a plain text file /etc/profile.d/essential_defaults >
First of all, use `eselect pager` =) The reason this isn't working is that the comment at the top of /etc/profile fails to mention this: for sh in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do [ -r "$sh" ] && . "$sh" done unset sh So it looks like you need to add a ".sh" extension.