/etc/profile.d

2011-01-10 Thread Nicholas Bamber
According to #370348, since 5.3 base-files has supported /etc/profile sourcing /etc/profile.d. I am using version 6.0. However /etc/profiles seems to be doing no such thing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: /etc/profile.d

2011-01-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, January 10, 2011 09:57, Nicholas Bamber wrote: According to #370348, since 5.3 base-files has supported /etc/profile sourcing /etc/profile.d. I am using version 6.0. However /etc/profiles seems to be doing no such thing. When was the system in question installed? The changelog

Re: Re: /etc/profile.d

2011-01-10 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Adam, Thanks for the explanation. I'm glad I avoided the hassle of raising a bug report on this occasion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: /etc/profile.d/

2010-12-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 20 décembre 2010 à 01:31 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf a écrit : I was looking at /etc/profile.d/ and was not sure how it was to function. As per LSB 4.0, every script present in /etc/profile.d/ is executed. I am thinking of a way to have a system wide shell variable that can be used

Re: /etc/profile.d/

2010-12-20 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 12/20/2010 02:11 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Please don’t use profile.d to do that. Nothing guarantees you that this variable will be available everywhere. This is precisely the reason why I’d rather we didn’t have such a feature, since it inevitably gets misused in such a way - as it has

/etc/profile.d/

2010-12-19 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello, I was looking at /etc/profile.d/ and was not sure how it was to function. As per LSB 4.0, every script present in /etc/profile.d/ is executed. I am thinking of a way to have a system wide shell variable that can be used and updated by further newer shell processes. Like, if I do

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-05-04 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
, is to modularize profile to /etc/profile.d/ where each program is resposible for shipping reasonable defaults. Redhad has done this long time and Cygwin does that too and it works very well. I suggest the post below that detail how they use it and why this is not needed in Debian: http

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc/profile is only used by bourne-compatible shells (of which tcsh isn't one). Most things can be writte in a way that's valid for all bourne-compatible shells, and any bits that can't can easily be wrapped in an appropriate if-statement

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:53:01PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:26, Russ Allbery wrote: Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What we need and what should have been done a long time ago, is to modularize profile to /etc/profile.d/ where each program

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-04-27 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:26, Russ Allbery wrote: Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What we need and what should have been done a long time ago, is to modularize profile to /etc/profile.d/ where each program is resposible for shipping reasonable defaults. Redhad has done this long time

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-04-23 Thread Jari Aalto
should not to hinder development but guide it to sensible direction that serves the Debian community, the end users. What we need and what should have been done a long time ago, is to modularize profile to /etc/profile.d/ where each program is resposible for shipping reasonable defaults. Redhad has done

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
direction that serves the Debian community, the end users. What we need and what should have been done a long time ago, is to modularize profile to /etc/profile.d/ where each program is resposible for shipping reasonable defaults. Redhad has done this long time and Cygwin does that too and it works