Re: Re (2): ~/.profile

2012-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Another puzzle. I have two Squeeze systems which are almost identical. > In both, my entry in /etc/passwd is the same and I added this line at > the end of ~/.profile. > > export EDITOR=vi Because .profile is the "generic" shell side of things it is better to use the

Re: Re (2): ~/.profile

2012-01-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 01 ian 12, 15:15:15, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Another puzzle. I have two Squeeze systems which are almost identical. > In both, my entry in /etc/passwd is the same and I added this line at > the end of ~/.profile. > > export EDITOR=vi > > On one system "echo $EDITOR" confirms the s

Re (2): ~/.profile

2012-01-01 Thread peasthope
From: Richard Hector Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:38:54 +1300 > The shell you run interactively (specified per-user in /etc/passwd) is > usually bash, because it's more friendly for interactive use. Dash is > smaller and lighter, and chosen presumably for that reason to run most > of the system s