On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 09:44:26AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     We should probably follow whatever NetBSD does there, but there is
>     no reason we can't turn it on in the default /etc/profile.

NetBSD enables it in /root/.profile. Putting it in /etc/profile is bad
for two reasons:
(a) That file is processed by many !/bin/sh shells as well.
(b) Users can't overwrite that file directly.

Joerg

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