[shell-discuss] "include" path for loadable shell functions ?

2007-01-06 Thread Glenn Fowler
On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:23:59 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote: > Glenn Fowler wrote: > > > > On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:19:25 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote: > [snip] > > note that the .paths file can also direct the shell to search for ksh > > functions on path via > > FPATH=../fun > > so that just before

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2007-01-06 Thread Roland Mainz
Mike Gerdts wrote: > > On 11/6/06, Darren J Moffat wrote: [snip] > I am not at all opposed to this proposal, I just suspect that a > standard /tmp cleaner utility would have more impact. That is, do for > /tmp cleaning what logadm has done for log rotation. Erm... I am STRONGLY opposed to somet

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2007-01-06 Thread Roland Mainz
Darren J Moffat wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > "Peter Tribble" wrote: > > > >> I regard this as unsafe and undesirable *as a default*. It clutters up > >> /tmp with unnecessary directories, wastes memory and involves > >> extra code at login. I have no problem with administrators or > >> user

[shell-discuss] "include" path for loadable shell functions ?

2007-01-06 Thread Roland Mainz
Henk Langeveld wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Is there any default location for loadable shell functions used by > > ksh/bash/zsh/etc. ? AFAIK these shells all support loadable functions > > (more or less) but do not seem to provide a "default" location similar > > to /usr/include/ (for system he

[shell-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent "user_attr" and"publickey" data from a shell script ?

2007-01-06 Thread Roland Mainz
Darren J Moffat wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Is there a nameservice-independent way to obtain the values for > > "user_attr" and "publickey" from a shell script (if not I would propose > > to add a extension to "getent") ? > > publickey no there isn't. > > For user_attr it depends which value

[shell-discuss] "include" path for loadable shell functions ?

2007-01-06 Thread Glenn Fowler
did my response to this yesterday drop on the floor? -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ -- On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:25:13 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote: > Henk Langeveld wrote: > > Roland Mainz wrote: > > > Is there any default location for loadable shell functions used by > > > ksh/bash