Jeremy Brown wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
X stuff exceptions are xterms and imitations which can be configured
to run login shells.
I assume you get a login shell when you log in via GDM though, right?
I don't use GDM, but I think you don't (you didn't used to with KDE, but
since I learnedto d
John Summerfield wrote:
X stuff exceptions are xterms and imitations which can be configured
to run login shells.
I assume you get a login shell when you log in via GDM though, right?
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Jeremy Brown wrote:
Jeremy Brown wrote:
I respect the established Debian policy...but I do disagree. I think
it is possible to build an environment-variable-setting system that
works with multiple shells, like the one currently in Slackware.
OK, I eat my words. After about 5 hours of thinking
Jeremy Brown wrote:
I respect the established Debian policy...but I do disagree. I think
it is possible to build an environment-variable-setting system that
works with multiple shells, like the one currently in Slackware.
OK, I eat my words. After about 5 hours of thinking about this off and
o
Cameron Hutchison wrote:
A program must not depend on environment variables to get reasonable
defaults. (That's because these environment variables would have to
be set in a system-wide configuration file like `/etc/profile', which
is not supported by all shells.)
Sorry for the
Paul Gear wrote:
Cameron Hutchison wrote:
Once upon a time Paul Gear said...
P.S. I can't believe Debian doesn't have /etc/profile.d. :-) Time to
submit the above as a patch?
Section 9.9 of the Debian policy has this to say about environment
variables:
...
A program must not d
Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Once upon a time Paul Gear said...
>
>>P.S. I can't believe Debian doesn't have /etc/profile.d. :-) Time to
>>submit the above as a patch?
>
>
> Section 9.9 of the Debian policy has this to say about environment
> variables:
> ...
> A program must not depend on
Once upon a time Paul Gear said...
>
> P.S. I can't believe Debian doesn't have /etc/profile.d. :-) Time to
> submit the above as a patch?
Section 9.9 of the Debian policy has this to say about environment
variables:
Jeremy Brown wrote:
> ...
> What is the equivalent of "/etc/profile.d" in Debian? Is there a
> package I can install to make this directory appear? Or does all
> initialization I want to do need to go directly into the file
> "/etc/profile"?
Just make your own /etc/profile.d and add the followin
On Tue, Aug 17 at 09:32AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria
Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> Em Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:20:06 +0200, Jeremy Brown escreveu:
> > does all initialization I want to do need to go directly
> > into the file "/etc/profile"?
sorta.
according to "man bash" there's /etc/profile (login) a
Em Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:20:06 +0200, Jeremy Brown escreveu:
> does all
> initialization I want to do need to go directly into the file
> "/etc/profile"?
Yep!
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I've been trying Debian out off and on for the last two weeks and was
following the instructions about creating and installing a Sun Java SDK
package located in the java-common package...I was going to create a
file "/etc/profile.d/jdk.sh" (to initialize some environment variables,
mainly) when
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