Re: /etc/profile.d
roland@spinnaker.de (Roland Rosenfeld) writes:
> But if you really need such a mechanism, why don't you create a real
> generic one?
>
I don't use any other shell on Linux than Bash and have no idea about
other shells. The only other shells i (unwillingly) touched so far
are the HP-UX-10.20 /bin/{sh,ksh}. The mechanism i wrote works just
fine for me using Bash only. Massimo's approach is more general
though because it includes csh support too. In shorter terms: I lack
the necessary expertise and above all the needed time to aquire the
letter for such a task. Any other takers?
> If I would need something like this, I would go the
> following way:
>
Well, how about you? ;-) I would be very happy if we'd get a
generalized profile.d mechanism to add on in Debian. :-)
> Such a solution is shell independent and keeps the administration
> overhead minimal, because administrator doesn't have to know the
> syntax of every shell
>
The implementation overhead is just too much for my small brain. ;-)
> So if someone really needs something like /etc/profile.d, the above
> idea could be a portable way to implement this.
>
Definitely! I'd love to use such a thing!
Cheers, P. *8^)
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