From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 10 0:37:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E4537B419 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 00:37:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA80662; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 00:37:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 00:37:25 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBDS-Questions Subject: Re: Is mergemaster necessary? In-Reply-To: <20020210060909.GA475@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:31:07PM -0500, C J Michaels wrote: > > > > > made any head way figguring this one out. Do other accounts show 'hints' > > also, or just yours? > > As a test, I created a new user, this line appears at the bottom of > .profile. > > [ -x /usr/games/fortune ] && /usr/games/fortune freebsd-tips > > I am running 4.5-STABLE as of 24 hours ago. > When you run adduser, you are asked if you want to install "dot" files from /usr/share/skel (or elsewhere, if you choose to tell it to use some other source of "dot" files). They are installed in the user's home dir as .profile, .cshrc, etc. You can of course look at them; you could change them, but they will be changed to the latest version whenever you cvsup. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message