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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:28:43 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: 2.2-960226-SNAP now on ftp.freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <199603200228.NAA13275@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> >/.profile is a hardlink to /root/.profile.

>It is very handy when booted single user as the root shell in that
>case has a home directory of / instead of /root.  I am pretty sure
>that was the reason that CSRG added this link when they moved root's
>home directory from / to /root.

Why didn't they set HOME=/root?

>> The system-wide profile /etc/profile isn't installed.  It should be
>> installed and contain only comments in it, like /etc/csh.login.

>WHAT???:
>SkyRsh# ls -lag /etc/prof*
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  570 Mar 16 16:03 /etc/profile

Oops.  I must have been looking at the Lite2 part of the diff.

>> Perhaps something like /etc/csh.cshrc should be implemented using
>> $ENV.

>Oh, you mean it is not used by /bin/sh???

/bin/sh certainly doesn't source csh files.

Bruce



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