From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 6 00:56:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF88A1065673 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:56:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brodbd@uw.edu) Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com (mail-vc0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0B98FC12 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbfy7 with SMTP id fy7so7143893vcb.13 for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:56:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=fH66iqT8AiFo0SUEVGJx922JEHQvbQe+r7hiTNAaQmI=; b=WxdvJsGpuac3tafHJY0sPC9RdhKe4lwOHpbTEu7LcpJ/P7Qv57fVtmEYDQieItnqBv GTAl24PzTSsuCkHqijJYIFxfyw0vnYgoOctdR6JXnIQnsYkObK1jyZixr3K8DjrSWVxK 9G5avTPznPYJzmUIafvd0oIhD2j26jgJnnF7B56wJyq2k1CR4CSKGxRsF4/FNCrXp1SF 2m23b2EUx8O0R62hFSjhGczF9RwxXDsZsjec75Zt2WvuH0NVbsXQot/5eKmhNxRE7UCF 1lzfFP9oapOXN+hVxxd6EawwiFGsMDmy6K9QR1vnrM90xKEz4G75gQ3qgApGsMOCRkKz pHuw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.30.2 with SMTP id o2mr11371051vdh.132.1341536215715; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.91.9 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:56:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120704221749.6a300733@bhuda.mired.org> References: <86bojxow6x.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4FF35864.5030109@FreeBSD.org> <20120704185104.GA42355@DataIX.net> <4FF4B36A.2040608@FreeBSD.org> <20120704180134.7c649e1b@bhuda.mired.org> <4FF4BEED.10103@FreeBSD.org> <20120704225519.GB19945@DataIX.net> <4FF4CAD1.8080804@FreeBSD.org> <20120704234104.GA392@DataIX.net> <8E9DECBB-3D1E-4129-A958-9DB0DF69ECC3@kientzle.com> <4FF4E105.50502@FreeBSD.org> <20120704203711.2732b645@bhuda.mired.org> <2EA305F0-87D9-47BE-B3E6-366659BF77AF@kientzle.com> <20120704214216.29085927@bhuda.mired.org> <8BD384B7-BAE3-46ED-9AFD-50319130767E@kientzle.com> <20120704221749.6a300733@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:56:55 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Brodbeck To: hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmiUP9GsfS9cSD6xgDIzMWzyYIuq2+R9Z1BGw/7tHep7es2eRg7xDqS2SdUQ2/BacTYaG7b Cc: Subject: Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:56:56 -0000 On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Mike Meyer 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