Re: /etc/bash.bashrc derivation and misuses
Linda Walsh wrote: Chet Ramey wrote: not a standard part of the build, so it's not in the man page. Putting a mention of it in would cause more problems that it would solve. --- Maybe, but a mention of it might not. Some verbiage that some implementations of bash may implement a system-wide 'bashrc' equivalent, that by default, is called '/etc/bash.bashrc'. More information is available in the source. That's not appropriate for a man page. In my opinion, if a system vendor chooses to enable that sort of functionality (and many do, for all sorts of reasons), then they need to add something to the documentation noting that. It doesn't have to be complicated: /etc/bash.bashrcSystem-wide interactive shell initialization file Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
Re: /etc/bash.bashrc derivation and misuses
Chet Ramey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my opinion, if a system vendor chooses to enable that sort of functionality (and many do, for all sorts of reasons), then they need to add something to the documentation noting that. Could that be done automatically by ./configure when this is enabled? paul ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
Re: /etc/bash.bashrc derivation and misuses
Paul Jarc wrote: Chet Ramey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my opinion, if a system vendor chooses to enable that sort of functionality (and many do, for all sorts of reasons), then they need to add something to the documentation noting that. Could that be done automatically by ./configure when this is enabled? It's not controlled by configure; it's a define that needs to be modified manually in config-top.h. The fact that you have to edit a header file by hand and enable it is intended to indicate that some other work is required. Maybe a note in config-top.h is needed. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
/etc/bash.bashrc derivation and misuses
Chet Ramey wrote: not a standard part of the build, so it's not in the man page. Putting a mention of it in would cause more problems that it would solve. --- Maybe, but a mention of it might not. Some verbiage that some implementations of bash may implement a system-wide 'bashrc' equivalent, that by default, is called '/etc/bash.bashrc'. More information is available in the source. ??? Yeah...it might confuse some people. But certainly no more than having /etc/bash.bashrc call /etc/profile, by default and having /etc/profile call $HOME/.bashrc by default (which ends up with some distributions (SuSE10.2) calling .bashrc twice with each bash invocation (ug!) (not that this is bash's fault :-)). ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
