Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:10:44PM +0200, homega@vlc.servicom.es wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt dixit:
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:14:57PM +0200, homega@vlc.servicom.es wrote:
> > > how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of
> > > /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to:
> > >
> > > $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc
> >
> > Any files in /etc/skel get copied to any new user accounts you create,
> > but not for existing users.
>
> I see, but even if I create a /etc/skel/.lynxrc file and then a new user,
> lynx won't even try to read the new user's ~/.lynxrc, but /etc/lynx.cfg.
> I did create a ~/.lynxrc from /etc/lynx.cfg (and even removed the latest),
> but lynx does default to /etc ...
>
> P.S. `lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc' on the command line works fine, how can I add
> that to the .bash_profile?
You could alias lynx to "/usr/bin/lynx -cfg=$HOME/.lynxrc" in .bash_profile.
It might be better to rename lynx and create a wrapper script which adds
this option. Perhaps you could add the wrapper script in /usr/local/bin
and put that before /usr/bin in the users' path?
I'm curious: what's the advantage of per-user lynx configuration files?
Hamish
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