On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 21:22 -0400, John R. Graham wrote: > > Roy Marples wrote: > > Looking over the bash man page, I cannot see the word recommended > > anywhere near .bash_profile. Could you clarify where you think bash > > recommends this? > > > Why, sure. It's my interpretation, but a reasonable one, I think.
No it's not. bash does not recommend anything of the sort. It just states what files are optionally used during initialisation. What I'm driving at is that you're making claims that things are broken or recommended when in fact they are not. Try reading some RFC's and then you'll have a clearer (hopefully!!) understanding of the words MUST and SHOULD. Also you'll understand that if those words are not present then it's entirely optional. I fully recommend reading RFC 2131 [1] as I'm very well acquainted with it and it also provides lots of good examples of these words :) Thanks Roy [1] http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=2131 PS - This does not necessarily mean I think /etc/skel files in /root is a bad thing, I just think you're going completely the wrong way about getting this done. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
