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From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Subject: Re: set env editor global
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:13, Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2004, at 10:37 AM, fbsd_user wrote:
> > On an new install with only an root account, I want to set the
> > command line prompt prefix and the default editor for all new users
> > and also the root account.
> >
> > What file do I put the 'set env' commands in to make this happen
> > globally?
>
> Look at /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc.
>
> [ Note that root has /bin/sh as it's shell, whereas normal users will
> be using csh by default.  This matters because different shells have
> different syntax and config file locations. ]

I believe your note is somewhat out of date. 4.x at least as far back as
4.1 has had /bin/csh (actually statically linked tcsh) as the default she=
ll=20
for root. (But you possibly still end up with sh if you boot into single=20
user mode.)

I don't know about 5.x, but would be a little surprised if the default ha=
s
reverted to sh.

Malcolm Kay=20