-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Phil Edwards: # Because 'dpkg -S' can't find it.
A little Googling indicated that your shell may look at it after /etc/profile. But from what I can see, no package actually creates it. It may have been created by a script invoked by you or by a program you installed from sources, but it isn't listed in any packages maintained in Debian. # And more to the point, what's looking at that file? It isn't my login shell, # it isn't any of the setup files that it looks at (.bashrc and so forth). Again, Googling suggested that some shell (not specified in the pages I found) look at it. However, whatever shell looks at it looks at /etc/profile first. # But the variables in that file are getting set somehow, and I'd like to # know how, and what's going to someday break if it gets removed. AFAIK, all the system-wide environment variables in Debian (using BASH as the login shell) are set in /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc and possibly in the scripts in /etc/profile.d. AFAIK, nothing will break if you remove the file, unless it is part of a package you compiled yourself. Nothing at all in Debian itself should break if you remove the file. HTH, PRINCE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAW4I3Al2SNUPt1I8RAswXAJ9x1oEp/kzf1E89q6Oc/hZJS3KIZwCfaulH mI9aZx13+7fETLJCEznvZTA= =OfG9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
