From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 09:36:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9991106564A for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:36:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA708FC1A for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o3L9aWki089459 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:36:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BCEC720.3080503@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:36:32 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington References: <4BCEAEDC.8000700@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multishell user profile X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:36:37 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 21/04/2010 09:30:54, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: > >> Hi: >> >> I need to create a user profile that works in different shells, >> particularly bash, csh and ksh. It seems that these does not read the same >> files and/or in the same order. So, how do I configure the shell profiles >> without configuring each shell separately? >> >> > Well, each shell reads different files for environment variables, etc. > So just have those files in ~/ and install the shells, then invoke them as > you wish. See login.conf(5) -- you can set environment variables for all users independent of what shell they use. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvOxyAACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwsKwCdFhS+EMLE0iG238ydQnnIesyR nzcAnRSybbdnQAkfCjGA8HwkLk3WwRLT =9s6B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----