John Plocher wrote: > > Nit: With this proposal, we will have the following shell config files > living in /etc: > > /etc/profile > /etc/suid_profile > /etc/.login > /etc/ksh.kshrc > /etc/default/su > > Where does the name "ksh.kshrc" come from? I'm worried that we don't > seem to have or be following any naming pattern for these shell startup > files.
/etc/ksh.kshrc comes from AT&T and the naming scheme was adopted by other shells, too - for example bash has /etc/bash.bashrc for the same purpose and we may (not this case, not this case, not...) want to add something like /etc/sh.shrc and ~/.shrc to the POSIX shell standard in the future. >From a viewpoint as an adminstator the "/etc/ksh.kshrc"&co. files are VERY usefull since it avoids the problem to update a few zillion ~/.kshrc files in user accounts (which is a nightmare for the current Solaris /usr/bin/ksh - it neither sets a default editor mode (which is one of the primary reasons why many beginners prefer "bash") nor is there a proper way to set one globally). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
