Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There's already a .bash_profile (and a .bashrc)
> > in /etc/skel/.
> And I strongly believe there shouldn't be any.
Well, frankly, nothing is "necessary" in /etc/skel/. The two bash
scripts are fairly content free, and .alias and .cshrc provided by tc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raul Miller) wrote on 27.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Santiago Vila) wrote on 26.04.98 in
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > I would really like to see something like '\h:\w\$ ' (or '\w\$ ' at
> > > least) in
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 05:18:23PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> is nothing more annoying than to be in a directory deep in the tree
> root:/usr/local/src/Work/graphics/png/full_color/logos/Linux/open/.xv/(32):
>
> See wht I mean? If you must have the path name, arrange to
> chop compon
> "Avery" == Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Avery> Why not /etc/profile? Or is that against policy?
Avery> Incidentally, I've always wondered why there is no /etc/bashrc
Avery> and /etc/bash_profile. They would be ideal for this.
My suggestion is there should be an all-
Hi,
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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Santiago> Henningsen wrote:
Santiago> Ok, "Only if the program doesn't support a site-wide default
Santiago> configuration and the package maintainer doesn't have time
Sa
Hi,
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Santiago> Well, I'm sure than 99% of people dislike current default
Santiago> bash prompt in /etc/profile. At least we could put the
Santiago> current dir, and maybe that 99% would decrease a lot.
Only if you truncate the stri
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On 27 Apr 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote on 26.04.98:
>
> > I would really like to see something like '\h:\w\$ ' (or '\w\$ ' at
> > least) in /etc/skel/.bashrc. Would it be against policy?
>
> Policy 3.3.7 "'/etc/skel' should be as empty as
Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Santiago Vila) wrote on 26.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I would really like to see something like '\h:\w\$ ' (or '\w\$ ' at
> > least) in /etc/skel/.bashrc. Would it be against policy?
>
> Policy 3.3.7 "'/etc/skel' should be a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Santiago Vila) wrote on 26.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I would really like to see something like '\h:\w\$ ' (or '\w\$ ' at
> least) in /etc/skel/.bashrc. Would it be against policy?
Policy 3.3.7 "'/etc/skel' should be as empty as we can make it."
MfG Kai
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On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 12:11:55PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > environment variables, I know. Maybe the "right thing to do" is modify
> > bash itself to _default_ to the right prompt. bash$ is just useless,
> > after all.
>
> Excellent idea.
>
> Ju
Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> environment variables, I know. Maybe the "right thing to do" is modify bash
> itself to _default_ to the right prompt. bash$ is just useless, after all.
Excellent idea.
Just try to keep the default prompt from getting too long.
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On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 03:34:01PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 02:46:58PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > Ok, trying to be "conservative", I have changed the default prompt for
> > > root from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' to '
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 09:30:04AM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> Incidentally, I've always wondered why there is no /etc/bashrc and
> /etc/bash_profile. They would be ideal for this.
In the default mode, which files to run at startup is hard-coded into bash,
and doesn't include those.
I always
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On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 02:46:58PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Ok, trying to be "conservative", I have changed the default prompt for
> > root from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' to '\h:\w\$ ' in base-files_1.9.
> >
>
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 02:46:58PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Ok, trying to be "conservative", I have changed the default prompt for
> root from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' to '\h:\w\$ ' in base-files_1.9.
>
> I would really like to see something like '\h:\w\$ ' (or '\w\$ ' at
> least) in /etc/s
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Ok, trying to be "conservative", I have changed the default prompt for
root from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' to '\h:\w\$ ' in base-files_1.9.
I would really like to see something like '\h:\w\$ ' (or '\w\$ ' at
least) in /etc/skel/.bashrc. Would it be against polic
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