Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:47:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: 2.2-960226-SNAP now on ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <199603200247.SAA21958@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199603200228.NAA13275@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 20, 96 01:28:43 pm
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> > >> >/.profile is a hardlink to /root/.profile. > > >It is very handy when booted single user as the root shell in that > >case has a home directory of / instead of /root. I am pretty sure > >that was the reason that CSRG added this link when they moved root's > >home directory from / to /root. > > Why didn't they set HOME=/root? You mean to have the kernel set this before it execs /bin/sh, I suppose you could do that. > >> The system-wide profile /etc/profile isn't installed. It should be > >> installed and contain only comments in it, like /etc/csh.login. > > >WHAT???: > >SkyRsh# ls -lag /etc/prof* > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 570 Mar 16 16:03 /etc/profile > > Oops. I must have been looking at the Lite2 part of the diff. > > >> Perhaps something like /etc/csh.cshrc should be implemented using > >> $ENV. > > >Oh, you mean it is not used by /bin/sh??? > > /bin/sh certainly doesn't source csh files. I meant that /bin/sh does not read /etc/profile, is that what you are talking about. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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