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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] bash_profile and bashrc . . .
  • Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:41:05 -0800

Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:

> I've been doing a little system maintenance this morning and running into a
> couple of quirks I thought I'd bring up to see if they are bugs that should
> be addressed or not.
>
> The first thing is in the .bash_profile, our /etc/skel version (and $HOME
> versions as well) have the following snippet:
>
> root@tbird:~# cat /etc/skel/.bash_profile
> PATH1=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
> PATH2=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
> PATH3=/usr/games:/usr/local/games
> PATH4=/usr/bin/X11:~/bin
> PATH=$PATH1:$PATH2:$PATH3:$PATH4
> PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
>
> If our Source Mage systems are supposed to have a /usr directory that is
> free
> of a local directory, shouldn't those PATHs also be free of /usr/local
> paths?
> If that is a bug, which component shall I file it against?

Probably. I believe the ISO sets those up currently.

> The second thing is that in my /root directory, .bashrc is a copy
> of .bash_profile rather than a link to it. In my /home/jason and in
> my /etc/skel, those files are links. Is that a bug or by design? If it is
> a
> bug, what component should I file it against?
>
> Thanks.

My .bashrc is a link to .bash_profile for root and in /etc/skel. Which ISO did
you install from? The two installs I checked are from 0.9.3 and 0.9.4-test2.

-sandalle

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