Re: /etc/profile.d

[robbie@scot-mur.demon.co.uk]

On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:29:07AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> roland@spinnaker.de (Roland Rosenfeld) writes:
> 
> > So if you know that the policy forbids profile.d, why do you start
> > this discussion here?
> >
> No, the policy doesn't forbid such a directory in itself.  It just
> forbids that such a directory be a default Debian system component
> like it is in Redhat.  And our policy is right on this.
Yes, I agree.

To make this work with any shell, including things like pdmenu, you could
use a wrapper script which does the profile stuff, and execs the real
shell. This would also give users a choice with chsh. 

Regards

 -- 
Rob Murray