[1937] in athena10
Re: pagbug workaround
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Sun Mar 29 00:41:26 2009
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:40:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
cc: linerva@mit.edu
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Greg Price wrote:
> I knew that bashrc is all shells and profile is at login, but looked
> in vain for an /etc/bash.profile. /etc/profile it is, thanks.
bashrc is not all shells; it’s all _interactive_ shells.
There’s no need to hunt randomly for these startup files; they’re all
documented in the INVOCATION section of the bash manpage, or the Bash
Startup Files section of the bash info page. Please read about them
before doing any kind of screwing with Linerva or Debathena dotfiles.
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Startup-Files.html
(The info page doesn’t mention /etc/bash.bashrc because it’s a Debianism
and they only patched the manpage, but it’s analagous to ~/.bashrc.)
Anders
