From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 29 06:39:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA13001 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 06:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ui-gate.utell.co.uk (ui-gate.utell.co.uk [194.200.4.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA12995 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 06:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utell.co.uk (shift.utell.net [97.3.0.21]) by ui-gate.utell.co.uk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA23954; Thu, 29 May 1997 14:39:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from shift.utell.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by utell.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA03782; Thu, 29 May 1997 14:39:31 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199705291339.OAA03782@utell.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, brian@awfulhak.org Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 May 1997 08:50:30 +0200." <19970529085030.UG61779@uriah.heep.sax.de> reply-to: brian@utell.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 14:39:30 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > So rstart is broken by design. Let me guess. This has been argued > > > before, and the xfree86 guys won't allow an absolute path to rstartd > > > (via say a flag to rstart).... :| > > > > I don't recall that it was ever discussed. I've certainly never heard > > of anyone actually using it, at least not until just now. :-) > > It has recently been discussed on the XFree86 list. > > Btw., Brian, you should actually complain at the inventor of your > shell. :-) If he had made a provision for a .xxxrc file as all nice > shells do (csh, tcsh, bash, zsh -- no, no discussions, please :), it > would be simple for you to extend your $PATH on startup. Yep. Simple (I use bash and therefore have .bashrc), but wrong IMO. You can either reset your PATH or append to your PATH in this file. Either way, you're going to break something and not realize what's going on in the future. I guess something smart like test ${PATH#~/bin} = $PATH && PATH=~/bin:/bin:...:/usr/X11R6/bin would work, but I don't think it's correct. > Mr. Korn decided to invent this crappy idea of $ENV, which has now [.....] I agree completely with your opinion of $ENV. It's horrible ! > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !