On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:55:20PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Can anyone think of alternatives? How can we solve this problem for
> our users?
Stop advising people to put in .*login and .profile files what they should
be putting in .{bash,zsh,etc.}rc files instead, guarded by if [ -n "$PS1" ]
to determine whether the session is running interactively.
I am seriously unimpressed with arguments advocating changes in the way the
shell is invoked from people who don't appear to know how to configure
their shell.
--
G. Branden Robinson | If you make people think they're
Debian GNU/Linux | thinking, they'll love you; but if
branden@debian.org | you really make them think, they'll
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | hate you. -- Don Marquis
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