From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 18 04:45:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA12246 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 04:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de (bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA12222 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 04:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous213.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.213]) by bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA28276; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:44:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id NAA00946; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:10:09 +0200 (MET DST) To: rssh@cki.ipri.kiev.ua Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting PATH in skeleton files References: <33A644A0.1981@cki.ipri.kiev.ua> From: Wolfram Schneider Date: 18 Jun 1997 13:10:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: Ruslan Shevchenko's message of Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:02:39 +0300 Message-ID: Lines: 16 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ruslan Shevchenko writes: > I see phrase > PATH=....... in skeleton files > (i.e. in /usr/share/skel/dot.profile, the same in dot.cshrc) > > In generally it is bad, becouse > system admininstrator can not add new directory in /etc/profile. > for all users. /usr/share/skel/dot.* are general examples which will be override after next update/make world. As a system admin, you should copy /usr/share/skel to /etc/skel and may modify the files in /etc/skel. -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/