* On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:24:24AM +1000, Michael Chesterton wrote: > That's a little different to a desktop, I have no problems configuring > apache, samba, asterisks, quagga, whatever, but choose not to tweak my > desktop. I used to modify sawfish, add hotkeys and a whole bunch of > bash aliases and functions, etc. I just got sick of seeing things like > "bash: ll: command not found" when I'd jump on a different box, and I > got sick of upgrading sawfish and starting from scratch.
I tend to move around a lot of different linux machines, so what I have is a 'movein' script - modifies .bashrc, /etc, and so on. Has a bit of intelligence eg doesn't modify /etc on machines I shouldn't. This is all documented in O'Reilly's 'Linux Server Hacks', hack 72, "Get Settled in Quickly". -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . "Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no place to hitch up a horse." (Daniel Dvorkin) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
