On Sun, September 18, 2005 10:14 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Sep 18 11:12, John Morrison wrote:
On Sat, September 17, 2005 2:35 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I'm wondering if base-files can't check if /etc/profile has been
changed,
for instance, using md5sum. Then it could overwrite the
On Sep 19 09:02, John Morrison wrote:
On Sun, September 18, 2005 10:14 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Humm, playing devils advocate for a minute - but if a user is happy with
the system they've got (perhaps by tweaking files themselves) - is it the
systems job to force them to update?
The
On Sat, September 17, 2005 2:35 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Sep 17 07:19, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Max Bowsher on 9/16/2005 4:27 PM:
The current /etc/profile does not permit the use of symlinks in
/etc/profile.d/ - it ignores them.
On Sat, September 17, 2005 5:33 pm, Max Bowsher wrote:
John Morrison replied to me privately (accidentally, I presume).
Yes, it was - sorry Max.
I'm forwarding the message to cygwin-apps@ to maintain threading:
Thanks - I wondered by it didn't appear on the list before I logged off!
J.
On Sun, September 18, 2005 1:14 am, Max Bowsher wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
Sorry, didn't realise. If I change the line
/bin/find /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname '*.zsh'
to be
/bin/find -L /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname '*.zsh'
would that fix things? (The
On Sep 18 11:12, John Morrison wrote:
On Sat, September 17, 2005 2:35 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I'm wondering if base-files can't check if /etc/profile has been changed,
for instance, using md5sum. Then it could overwrite the file if it's
still
the original version, or, if it has been
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According to Max Bowsher on 9/16/2005 4:27 PM:
The current /etc/profile does not permit the use of symlinks in
/etc/profile.d/ - it ignores them.
Unfortunately, even if this was fixed in the package, existing installs
wouldn't get fixed, because
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According to Eric Blake on 9/17/2005 7:19 AM:
Here's my idea - add a /etc/profile/symlinkhandler.sh that detects whether
/etc/profile has been patched yet, and if not, source all the symlinks in
/etc/profile.
And after more thought, one easy way
On Sep 17 07:19, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Max Bowsher on 9/16/2005 4:27 PM:
The current /etc/profile does not permit the use of symlinks in
/etc/profile.d/ - it ignores them.
Unfortunately, even if this was fixed in the package,
John Morrison replied to me privately (accidentally, I presume).
I'm forwarding the message to cygwin-apps@ to maintain threading:
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Hi Max,
On Fri, September 16, 2005 11:27 pm, Max Bowsher wrote:
The current /etc/profile does not permit the use of
John Morrison wrote:
Hi Max,
On Fri, September 16, 2005 11:27 pm, Max Bowsher wrote:
The current /etc/profile does not permit the use of symlinks in
/etc/profile.d/ - it ignores them.
Sorry, didn't realise. If I change the line
/bin/find /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname
Sorry, didn't realise. If I change the line
/bin/find /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname '*.zsh'
to be
/bin/find -L /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname '*.zsh'
would that fix things? (The -L tells find to follow the link and make
decisions based on
Eric Blake wrote:
Sorry, didn't realise. If I change the line
/bin/find /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname '*.zsh'
to be
/bin/find -L /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname '*.zsh'
would that fix things? (The -L tells find to follow the link and make
decisions based
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