To the best of my knowledge, this is a Linux thing. Now, Manadrake may use the /etc/profile.d/alias.sh script, but Linux uses the /etc/profile.d to keep some of it's aliases like that. Checking on a RedHAT machine, I can see other *.sh as well as *.csh files in that directory for setting up aliases. So this isn't something that's entirely Mandrake specific.
One other thing. Somebody asked did you reboot after making those settings. Reboots are for two reasons. 1) Hardware upgrades 2) New Kernel installs. Never reboot your machine because you installed an application, or your application crashed. The 'source command or the '.' command can read settings changed like that. Just tell the current shell to re-read those settings, a new shell spawned will auto- matically read those settings. We stopped using Windows so we didn't have to waste time rebooting! tdh -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | thanks for the detailed reply. For systemwide change i used to in | bashrc.Fundanental thing I wasnot knowing that about /etc/profile.d/alias.sh. | Is it specific to mdk 8.1 ? | -- | L.V.Gandhi | 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 | MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA | [EMAIL PROTECTED],� [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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