[191] in athena10
Re: System Dotfiles (was Re: /svn/athena r22913
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Apr 25 10:01:05 2008
Cc: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:00:20 -0400
On Apr 25, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 09:06 -0400, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> I would also be in favor of this, if we can find a reasonable way to
>> deal with .environment. (Perhaps via an external script that we
>> encourage people to run, and notify them via a dialog box). Given
>> that the number of bash users is probably small in comparison to tcsh
>> users, we could probably also send e-mail.
>
> I'm lost. What specific issue are you addressing here?
Well, assuming I remember correctly, there's no .bash.environment or
something similar. I was operating under the assumption that this
would be combined with the idea that Xsession would determine the
user's shell and spawn the appropriate one. Thus, all dotfiles would
now be processed with the user's shell. The primary dotfile that is
likely to contain shell-specific syntax is .environment, and thus it
would fail to be processed with bash. (Although now that i think
about it, it's probably incorrect to assume that .startup.{X,tty} do
not contain shell-specific syntax)
Perhaps I inadvertently combined two different problems, though.
-Jon
