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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
