On 2 May 2012, at 03:26, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> Actually, if you look at the contents of my essential_defaults file, I'm not
>> so interested in the pager as the MANPAGER setting. I find that after using
>> `most` as my man-pager, it's quite horrible using `less` on a new system.
>> For anythi
On 1 May 2012, at 23:52, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:11:37PM +0100, Stroller wrote
>> So /etc/profile contains the following message:
>>
>> # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user
>> # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file i
On May 2, 2012 2:48 AM, "Stroller" wrote:
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> On 1 May 2012, at 19:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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> > On 05/01/2012 02:11 PM, Stroller wrote:
> >> So /etc/profile contains the following message:
> >>
> >> # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for
per-user
> >> # settings.
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:11:37PM +0100, Stroller wrote
> So /etc/profile contains the following message:
>
> # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user
> # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/.
> export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/na
On 1 May 2012, at 19:38, Alex Schuster wrote:
>> …
>> The file is world-readable (mode 644), and I even tried setting the
>> execute bit (`chmod +xxx`).
>
> It needs to be readable by your user, more is not needed.
Yeah, I thought not, but I thought I'd mention trying it.
Stroller.
On 1 May 2012, at 19:20, Remy Blank wrote:
> Stroller wrote:
>> What am I doing wrong or misunderstanding, please?
>
> Rename your file to "essential_defaults.sh". Only files with a ".sh"
> extension are sourced (assuming you are using bash).
Many thanks!
That's it.
Stroller.
On 1 May 2012, at 19:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/01/2012 02:11 PM, Stroller wrote:
>> So /etc/profile contains the following message:
>>
>> # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user
>> # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profi
Stroller writes:
> Therefore I have created a plain text
> file /etc/profile.d/essential_defaults
[...]
> Yet when I log in, these environment variables are not set.
>
> The file is world-readable (mode 644), and I even tried setting the
> execute bit (`chmod +xxx`).
It needs to be readable by
On 05/01/2012 02:11 PM, Stroller wrote:
> So /etc/profile contains the following message:
>
> # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user
> # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/.
> export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano}
> export PAGE
So /etc/profile contains the following message:
# You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user
# settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/.
export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano}
export PAGER=${PAGER:-/usr/bin/less}
Therefore I have created
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