From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Sep 5 12:37:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236C337B40C for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0BD1A18EB; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:38:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0021A18EA; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:38:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: . files? In-Reply-To: <1884559436.20010905213334@e-box.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message