John Morrison replied to me privately (accidentally, I presume). I'm forwarding the message to cygwin-apps@ to maintain threading:
Original Message below: ------------------- Hi Max, On Fri, September 16, 2005 11:27 pm, Max Bowsher wrote:
The current /etc/profile does not permit the use of symlinks in /etc/profile.d/ - it ignores them.
Sorry, didn't realise. If I change the line /bin/find /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname '*.zsh' to be /bin/find -L /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname '*.zsh' would that fix things? (The -L tells find to follow the link and make decisions based on the actual file AFAICT).
Unfortunately, even if this was fixed in the package, existing installs wouldn't get fixed, because /etc/profile is handled via /etc/defaults :-(
What's wrong with /etc/defaults? This sort of update is precisely what it's supposed to handle. The only time people won't get upgraded is if they've manually edited their /etc/profile (or they have a copy which existed before /etc/defaults came into existence). These folks have been told to upgrade and where it's better to place their modifications, surely we've given them enough time by now ;) J. PS, off this thread, since you are maintaining Apache2 atm, could you let me know if you've ever taken a look at the php module? I'd like to get phpBB working, but couldn't get the php module to compile correctly. No worries if it's not on your agenda ;)
