[newbie] Global .bashrc? (was: Real rm?)

2001-03-02 Thread DRX 

Meph Istopheles wrote:
  This one bothered me too (read "drove me nuts") till I finally
looked in ~./.bashrc.  It appears MandrakeSoft chose to make an
alias for rm to rm='rm -i' which is for interactive.  I suppose
to gear toward the total 'puter newbie.

  You can either remove the alias or, as I'd done, switch it to
rm='rm -f' which is for force, ie, no questions asked.

  Meph

 Thanks Meph.  It drives me nuts too.  The problem is that I use
several users, for different purposes.  Since they are all me, they all
want the usual Unix response to "rm."  It's annoying to have to edit every
single ~./.bashrc.  Where do I find the "global" or "master" .bashrc file,
so I can get rid of that interactive nonsense once and for all?  I found a
bashrc (without the dot in front of it) in /etc, but this didn't contain
any of that alias stuff.  When a new user's home directory is created,
presumably the new .bashrc file is copied from some master .bashrc file
somewhere, but where is that?  Is that the one I should change to get real
rm for all users?

 DRX

Re: [newbie] Global .bashrc? (was: Real rm?)

2001-03-02 Thread Meph Istopheles 

  Hey,

  Thanks Meph.  It drives me nuts too.  The problem is
 that I use several users, for different purposes.  Since they
 are all me, they all want the usual Unix response to "rm."
 It's annoying to have to edit every single ~./.bashrc.
 Where do I find the "global" or "master" .bashrc file, so I
 can get rid of that interactive nonsense once and for all?

  That took a little looking for me too.  You'll find it in:

/etc/profile.d/alias.sh

 When a new user's home directory is created, presumably the new
 .bashrc file is copied from some master .bashrc file somewhere

  Not exactly.  Most of that's controlled by various files, many
of which are in /etc/profile.d directory.

 Is that the one I should change to get real rm for all users?

  It would get overwritten each time you logged in.  Edit the
alias.sh file,  maybe look through the .sh files for more stuff
to set the way you want in terminals.

  Meph

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