On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> But only if you start a second login shell, and you shouldn't be doing that.
> >
> > Sadly I don't have to do that. RedHat in their infinite wisdom run the
> > scripts in /etc/profile.d from /etc/bashrc if they haven't already been
> > run by /etc/profile.
>
> They must be very wise at Red Hat, but this smells like a
> configuration bug, sort of. The bash manual promises to run
> '{/etc/,~/.bash_,~/.}profile' only upon login.
>
> Are you sure that you did not make this change yourself?
Yes.
$ rpm -qf /etc/bashrc
setup-2.5.27-1.1
$ rpm -V setup
S.5....T c /etc/printcap
..?..... c /etc/securetty
i.e. my /etc/bashrc file is as supplied in the RPM.
> > I presume they have at least a plausible reason,
> > since it's a sin of comission rather than of omission!
>
> Probably. I'm not thrilled by Red Hat's concept of fixing stuff in
> /etc/profile.d/* anyway.
FWIW I've filed a bug report in RedHat's Bugzilla (although I put it as
more of a question than a bug report). I first googled extensively and
looked in the RedHat manuals to try to find an (official) justification
of this behaviour, but couldn't find one.
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