On Tue, 2 May 2000, Nicholas Petreley wrote:

> IMO an installation program for an app should be able to change the .profile 
> or equivalent in a user's home dir if it needs to (at least with the 
> permission of the user).  That means that it needs to find a .profile vs. a 
> .login, or whatever.  Or perhaps this means the app should query to find out 
> which shell the user has enabled by default, and find the correct file that 
> way?  In which case we should specify the correct way to do that perhaps?  

Ugh. We should just standardize /etc/profile.d or the like.

Erik

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