On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > : On 13 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: > : > : <snip> > : Didn't everyone noticed that the "system wide" profile (/etc/profile) > : includes "."? > > Yuck. > > Thanks for pointing that out - looks like I've some editing to do.
When did it get put in (and more importantly, why?) I remember having a version without it. Hmmm, maybe it was an upstream thing. /usr/doc/bash/changelog.Debian.gz says: bash (2.01.1-3) unstable frozen; urgency=medium * libreadline 2.1-10 * Make libreadlineg2's postinst a c program, like libreadline2. * Check return code from tempfile in bashbug, closes: #22349. * glibc 2.1 patch, closes #22532. * remove . from /etc/profile PATH, closes #22738. Somehow my copy didn't get updated with this change. Bob (who just edited his /etc/profile) ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
