agreed that the sh rc namespace defies predictable naming /etc/ksh.kshrc is not an at&t idea its sort of goofy, with the exception of ny ny, to replicate a name in a path
it was requested here http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2006-July/000511.html "like it is done on Linux" maybe the solaris vs linux guys can work this out offlist ... -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ -- On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:58:19 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote: > 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;) > _______________________________________________ > ksh93-integration-discuss mailing list > ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ksh93-integration-discuss
