Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:36:32 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multishell user profile Message-ID: <4BCEC720.3080503@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <m2j991123401004210130vc5bdc912k46a97e5a29060492@mail.gmail.com> References: <4BCEAEDC.8000700@locolomo.org> <m2j991123401004210130vc5bdc912k46a97e5a29060492@mail.gmail.com>
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On 21/04/2010 09:30:54, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I need to create a user profile that works in different shells,
>> particularly bash, csh and ksh. It seems that these does not read the same
>> files and/or in the same order. So, how do I configure the shell profiles
>> without configuring each shell separately?
>>
>>
> Well, each shell reads different files for environment variables, etc.
> So just have those files in ~/ and install the shells, then invoke them as
> you wish.
See login.conf(5) -- you can set environment variables for all users
independent of what shell they use.
Cheers,
Matthew
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