On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Dan McDonald <dan...@omniti.com> wrote:
> This is a serious question. A recent illumos push mildly affects people > who have, but in OmniOS's case, it's a mild change (not a horrible one). > > I'd appreciate some on-list feedback about who does and doesn't change > their /etc/profile or /etc/.login vs. what we ship. > This isn't OmniOS specific, but every production Solaris box I've managed for the last decade or two has had one or both fixed (usually .login, because tcsh was the default, now /etc/profile for other shells). Primarily to eradicate the completely unnecessary calls to quota and mail. I've seen some horrible monstrosities perpetrated by commercial software or well-meaning power users. PowerPath has this habit of whacking its stuff onto /etc/profile, that's the one 3rd-party application that I've seen on a routine basis. > The next bloody update (and r151014) will alter the default file, and > because of IPS, it won't be replaced IF the file was altered from the stock > configuration. Fortunately for OmniOS, it's mostly a don't-care. > > I appreciate your feedback! > > Thanks, > Dan McD -- OmniOS Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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