On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:49:51PM +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 15:15, Bo ??rsted Andresen wrote:
> 
> > You are missing /etc/profile. Only thing this requires is the file is
> > located in /etc/profile.d, ends on .sh and is readable and sourceable
> > by the user. Probably just a permissions problem.
> 
> This is strange: my /etc/profile doesn't have any references 
> to /etc/profile.d (that's why I wrote the previous email).
> 
> In the past, I used to customize that file a lot, so at some point I 
> probably told etc-update to keep my version. 
> 
> Indeed, looking at /etc/profile on another box, I found 
> the /etc/profile.d stuff.

Just remember that those aliases will stay only in login shell, any
other shell level wont keep them. There should be something like
/etc/shrc.d/ sourced by bashrc for such things.

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Lukasz Pawelczyk
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