Unable to set path in /etc/profile

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 09:47:34PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>On za, 2005-07-23 at 16:18 -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
>> It is for *login* shells, bash.bashrc is for the other "type" of shell
>> "mode" (interactive, but not declared as a login type).  The man page
>> for
>> bash has the explanation of how it distinguishes between the two
>> types, but
>> its all a bloody mess, if you ask me.  :)
>
>This scheme is definitely flawed indeed...

One of the reasons I'm using ZSH as a user, and have manually written
the BASH startup files to follow the same model.

/M

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Magnus Therning                    (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4)
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Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish.
Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship
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Child pornography -- I never heard of it as a problem five years ago,
but now it's brought up constantly. I think it's the new Red-baiting.
The people in Burma don't understand how it is that we are focusing
our whole crypto policy on catching child pornographers. If you think
that cryptography is good for society you have to apologize and say
that you are against child pornography...  The fact that I even have
to say that is an indication of how effective this Red-baiting is... I
think that we can't let our civil liberties for the society at large
be determined by government policy towards a tiny segment of the
criminal population.
      -- Philip Zimmermann
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