Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:49:54 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Subject: RE: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2 Message-ID: <14508.24306.459593.102063@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <200002171845.NAA59070@server.baldwin.cx> References: <14508.8230.213769.821490@hip186.ch.intel.com> <200002171845.NAA59070@server.baldwin.cx>
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[ On Thursday, February 17, John Baldwin wrote: ]
>
> > [printing ATA message about "waiting"]
> >
> Soren's been bugged about this, bug him some more. :) <sos@FreeBSD.org>
>
BUG BUG BUG :)
> Hmm, it used to say something to that effect a while back.
can't comment. I haven't done a CD install in a looong time.
> It modifies root's setup and the setup in /usr/share/skel. Note that since
> sysinstall must run as root, it can't possibly know what username you are using.
> If you do the Desktop configuration before adding new users, then it will DTRT.
> If you are prompted to add new users in the Novice install before you do the X
> Desktop setup, then the order of those two things may need to be switched around.
OK. That's what happened! I added a new user ("me") before I did the desktop
configuration. So, you're saying that it adds a "dot.xinitrc" file in
/usr/shar/skel which would be copied to all created accounts?
Perhaps something could be added to sysinstall so that the "dot.*" files
aren't copied to user accounts until a) after a desktop configuration, or b)
sysinstall exits. Or, perhaps safer, if you do a desktop configuration recopy
all the dot.* files to all user accounts that were created during that
sysinstall session. Seems that would fix the problem ...
> Then submit patches to the /usr/share/skel files in a PR. I'm not sure where they
> are in the src tree, maybe src/share/skel.
Indeed. However, as we were talking about this morning in -qa, is a better
spot for these variables /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile?
> Thanks.
no problem!
-Jr
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