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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:38:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= <neigaard@e-box.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: . files?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109051236530.76245-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
In-Reply-To: <1884559436.20010905213334@e-box.dk>

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On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, [ISO-8859-1] S=F8ren Neigaard wrote:

> My "normal" users have: .cshrc
>                         .login_conf
>                         .mailrc
>                         .rhosts
>                         .login
>                         .mail_aliases
>                         .profile
>                         .shrc
> And my root user have:  .cshrc
>                         .history
>                         .klogin
>                         .login
>                         .profile
> In their home dir. What are they all for, witch are read when? Well...
> If someone could please give me a short intro into the dot file world,
> I would be very pleased.

=09Greg's book, The Complete FreeBSD goes into pretty good detail
about these. :) But essentially they all have to do with login
"environmental" information, etc, that is specific to that account.

=09Rick


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