From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 9:19:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A90C14D28 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:19:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25881; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:18:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:18:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: "J. M. Albores" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie: The "PS1" environment variable & others. In-Reply-To: <378C0AD3.42A7857B@bigfoot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message