Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:18:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: "J. M. Albores" <jote@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie: The "PS1" environment variable & others. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907140914180.25793-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <378C0AD3.42A7857B@bigfoot.com>
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, J. M. Albores wrote:
> BTW, what's the reason to have a hardlink to ~/.profile in "/"? Maybe a
> bug?
It's definitely not a bug. To be honest I'm not sure exactly why
it's there, but I can think of several possible reasons. The most likely
reason I can think of is that on some SysV systems there is no /root
directory, so people got into the habit of editing /.profile. It serves no
useful purpose that I can see, however it doesn't hurt anything either.
Good luck,
Doug
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