On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That was the problem. Thanks for your patience. > > So now I have two questions: > > 1 - Is there a good tutorial or reference where I should have looked for this? > I spent alot of time looking before I posted the question, but didn't find the > answer. Inthe **good old days** of DOS I would have found the solution with > very little effort. :-) As for a reference: the man page, of course. You can find that right in the INVOCATION section of the man page for bash. Theere is a package in mandrake (and probably other distros as well. Haven't checked) called bash-doc which contains extra documantation about bash, but I suppose that's mostly about scripts. You probably also noticed the /etc/profile.d directory, which is used (at least on mandrake) as a place for seperate packages to put their own init scripts (which saves them the need of editing /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login just to add an extra directory to a certain PATH. > > 2 - Can you see any reason to put a PATH command in /root/.bashrc where it > overwrites the default in etc/profile? I suppose I could have added the > directory I wanted there, but instead I deleted the PATH command so the default > path from /etc/profile would take effect. It seems to me that the whole point > of having config files in /etc is to keep them all in one convenient location. > Only special changes should be done elsewhere. root is not just a user like anyone else. For instance, maybe some special care has to be taken so that the root account can function correctly when /usr is not availble. Or maybe you don't want to expose root's PATH to whatever was added in the PATH by some /etc/profile.d script (those two are just speculations). -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
