Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 03:37:53 +0100 From: Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org> To: grahamperrin@gmail.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: etcupdate -B, /.cshrc and /.profile Message-ID: <202308230237.37N2brSh029907@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net> In-Reply-To: <ad0c7ea1-e44b-1748-1589-8e9f2f0a25fd@gmail.com> References: <ad0c7ea1-e44b-1748-1589-8e9f2f0a25fd@gmail.com>
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Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote: > If I recall correctly, a few hours ago etcupdate -B resulted in removal > of two files: > > /.cshrc > /.profile > > Is this degree of checking/removal a novelty? > > (I can't recall the files' contents, or when I created them. I guess > that I carelessly created them as dot files months ago without realising > that I wasn't at ~, I don't mourn their loss.) For as long as I can remember, (as far back as FreeBSD 2.2.7 in 1998) all FreeBSD installs have /.cshrc and /profile as hardlinks to /root/.cshrc and /root/.profile . Removing them both is one of the first things I do when I install a new system from install-media. If etcupdate is now removing them, maybe there has been an update to the src distribution / mntree so that this historical weirdness has finally been removed? If you have a /root/.cshrc and /root/.profile, try doing an ls -c on them to see if their changed-date is when you did the etcupdate. Jamiehelp
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