On 31/07/15 21:25, [email protected] wrote: > How do you customize your environment? > > What aliases or custom functions do you use? > > Here's my /etc/profile I think you can find one or two interesting things > in it.
Ouch - this hits a nerve. @work, we have a Unix environment where the "powers that be" have put every little customization into /etc/profile, parsing huge scripts to setup everything "in their gusto". It takes ages to parse, just for me to 'unalias' and 'unset' every little crap they put into and setup a sane prompt. Remember, users cannot easily avoid having /etc/profile parsed during login. Thus they cannot avoid getting all the variables and aliases that you are putting into it. Please do not recommend putting too much stuff into /etc/profile, the content of that file should be limited to bare minimum that should be enforced onto users. Everything else should go into $HOME/.profile (or /etc/skel/.profile). Bernd
