Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:44:03 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: h0444lp6 <h0444lp6@student.hu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /.cshrc and /.profile Message-ID: <20040212194402.GB68429@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <026101c3f189$2a4d7a00$5279148d@kojo> References: <026101c3f189$2a4d7a00$5279148d@kojo>
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:56:01AM +0800, h0444lp6 wrote:
> Dear list
>
> What are the /.cshrc and /.profile files for?
>
> Since /etc holds the system wide conf files and ~ the user specific ones
> I do not understand why there are the ones in /.
When the machine boots into single-user mode, the root user's HOME is
set to /.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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