On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 05:25:11PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Robert Collins wrote: >> If someone wants to follow my notes in reply to Corinna and create a >> shell defaults package, that would be great. AFAIK all distro's generate >> a very simply prompt for you, and then leave it up to you. > >One thing that might be useful: > >SuSE Linux sets PROFILEREAD=yes as first thing in /etc/profile and >all $HOME/.profile depend on this and read /etc/profile if this is >not set. > >Running cygwin and accessing homes on a SuSE box will fall into an >never ending loop.
And, it sounds like (possibly) running Mandrake linux and accessing home on a SuSE box will fall into an infinite loop, and (definitely) running Red Hat will do so. This sounds like a dubious feature to me. cgf