On Tue, 02 Mar 1999, Mitchell Gil Maltenfort wrote:
>
>do I risk fouling up my system if I rename .bash_profile .profile for
>consistency with Linux proper?
>
Hide .bash_profile away where it won't assault your sensibilities,
then make a link to it.
>and is there a documented list of other RH idiosyncracies?
>Thanks in advance.
There's a reason for most of the idiosyncracies. Back when RH started
out, there wasn't an "official" way of doing things, so they did what
they thought at the time was most sensible. Most distributions have
minor annoyances like this.
.profile was renamed .bash_profile to make it distinct from other
bourne derived shells, which also expect a .profile file.
--
Arandir...
