> On Jan 24, 2019, at 4:23 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
> <free...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>> On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 15:55 -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>>> Author: trasz
>>>> Date: Thu Jan 24 23:34:51 2019
>>>> New Revision: 343416
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/343416
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>> Install .shrc for root, and set PS1 for the toor account.
>>>
>>> And a dozen other aliases :-(
>>> Please do not contaiminate the prestine environment with
>>> personal preferences. In the start of the project we
>>> did a great deal of work to remove and eliminate these
>>> types of things, only the few csh aliases where retained.
>>>
>>> This is really the domain of a systems administrator to
>>> decide and making work for them to clean this out is
>>> not going to make them happy.
>>>
>>> The commands in an ENV file well be executed by
>>> every single shell that is started, not just an
>>> interactive shell, unless I am mis reading the
>>> man page:
>>> If the environment variable ENV is set on
>>> entry to a shell, or is set in the .profile of a login shell, the
>>> shell
>>> then subjects its value to parameter expansion and arithmetic
>>> expansion
>>> and reads commands from the named file.
>
> The man page needs fixed here too, it does infact later state
> that THIS version of sh does not always run ENV, only for
> interactive shells. Which is a good thing, but there is
> still this un needed contaimination with aliases.
>
> You also just caused me to have to revive my .profile diff
> cause the addition of the ENV falls in the context range
> of my local mods. I am sure this effects others. Please
> do consider that these files have been very very rarely
> touched over decades of time.
>
+1
Will be watching for the revert of this.
--
Devin
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