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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:56:55 -0700
From:      David Brodbeck <brodbd@uw.edu>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
Message-ID:  <CAHHaOua%2B_GsUukZTZ-NPTcYYdyzOdekaqHkGL0gidoP3qiQmDg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120704221749.6a300733@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote:
> Actually, that's my biggest gripe about Linux systems. They set things
> in /etc/* shell profiles that *can't* be turned off in user rc files,
> because the ones in /etc run last. (And usually more than
> once. Idiots.)

I haven't encountered that, at least on RedHat.  I routinely override
stuff in /etc/profile in my local .bash_profile.  The bash manpage is
pretty explicit that /etc/profile is read first.  Are some distros
doing something silly like sourcing /etc/profile in .bash_profile?

-- 
David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington



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