On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Gordon Rowell wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:39:58PM -0500, Kirrily Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Hope that's helpful to you. For more information on all of this, you
> > should probably consult a good book on Unix.
>
> I would suggest making thes change system-wide in /etc/profile
>
> Be careful, that file should use Bourne shell (/bin/sh) syntax, not the
> extended Bourne Again Shell :-) (/bin/bash) syntax. The two are
> equivalent on Linux, but you should not assume this on all *nix variants.
I would instead suggest that any shell environment change be made by
dropping a fragment into /etc/profile.d/. If you are a bit
strange^H^H^H^H^H^prefer to use tcsh, you can stick a blah.csh file there
as well as a blah.sh.
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