That makes sense to me. Actually it makes much more sense than what I suggested. ;-)
-Nick * Erik Troan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000502 14:09]: > 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 > | > > -- ********************************************************** Nicholas Petreley LinuxWorld - InfoWorld [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.petreley.com - Eph 6:12 ********************************************************** .
