Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > That was the problem. Thanks for your patience. > > > > So now I have two questions: > > > > 1 - Is there a good tutorial or reference where I should have looked for this? > > I spent alot of time looking before I posted the question, but didn't find the > > answer. Inthe **good old days** of DOS I would have found the solution with > > very little effort. :-) > > As for a reference: the man page, of course. > > You can find that right in the INVOCATION section of the man page for > bash. > > Theere is a package in mandrake (and probably other distros as well. > Haven't checked) called bash-doc which contains extra documantation about > bash, but I suppose that's mostly about scripts. > there are some nice examples of bash scripting. Others nice examples can be found in /etc/init.d (/etc/rc.d/init.d) folder. And there are info pages for bash - higly recommended. info bash should invoke that - if you will see man page for bash instead, you will need to install info pages. > You probably also noticed the /etc/profile.d directory, which is used (at > least on mandrake) as a place for seperate packages to put their own init > scripts (which saves them the need of editing /etc/profile and > /etc/csh.login just to add an extra directory to a certain PATH. > > > > > 2 - Can you see any reason to put a PATH command in /root/.bashrc where it > > overwrites the default in etc/profile? I suppose I could have added the > > directory I wanted there, but instead I deleted the PATH command so the default > > path from /etc/profile would take effect. It seems to me that the whole point > > of having config files in /etc is to keep them all in one convenient location. > > Only special changes should be done elsewhere. > > root is not just a user like anyone else. For instance, maybe some special > care has to be taken so that the root account can function correctly when > /usr is not availble. Or maybe you don't want to expose root's PATH to > whatever was added in the PATH by some /etc/profile.d script (those two > are just speculations). In addition to those reasons, as was mentioned earlier, /sbin and /usr/sbin folders should be added to root's path. Besides, root should have different order of folders in its path. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
