On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:38:59AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Ok, that settles .profile. Now why is your advice bad, bad, bad for > the system-wide configuration, as well? Because we nowadays have > Linux distributions that can be upgraded. And /etc/profile is sure to > be under the control of the upgrade process which will require manual > intervention after any future upgrade once we tamper with > /etc/profile. For that reason, there usually is a directory like > /etc/profile.d on most systems. Put a file of your own in there, > something like mytexsetup.sh and write the lines above in there.
I've never used a Linux distro so can't comment on that count. But as far as FreeBSD is concerned /.profile and /etc/profile are _never_ tampered with either by a binary upgrade or a `make buildworld' and `make installworld'. My beast has been through both a good number of times and here are the files: / -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 251 Apr 21 2001 .profile /etc -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 839 Sep 18 2001 profile Personally, I would be loath to use any OS which required basic reconfiguration because of an upgrade. In short, for BSD at least, Thomas Esser's advice seems to stand. Many regards, Richard Mahoney -- +--------------------------------------------------------------+ Richard Mahoney mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 78 Jeffreys Road telephone:+64-3-351-5831 Christchurch New Zealand cellular:+64-25-829-986 +--------------------------------------------------------------+
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