Date: 23 Feb 2001 10:56:17 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, akadanak@kc.rr.com Subject: Re: CLICOLOR Message-ID: <44bsrt1jha.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: akadanak@kc.rr.com's message of "23 Feb 2001 15:29:31 %2B0100" References: <3A9667F9.F68612CF@i-clue.de> <NEBBKCKCKLNLIOPJGMEAMEDPCFAA.akadanak@kc.rr.com>
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akadanak@kc.rr.com (Dana) writes:
> Yeah, that did it. I man'd all over the place
> but didn't think of man csh. But that only works
> until the next reboot. So I put it in .cshrc
> and now it is permanent.
>
> But now I am thinking, what if I have 1,000 accounts.
> There must be a way to set this globally.
Sure. Go back to 'man csh':
A login shell begins by executing commands from the system
files /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/csh.login. It then executes
commands from files in the user's home directory: first
~/.tcshrc (+) or, if ~/.tcshrc is not found, ~/.cshrc,
then ~/.history (or the value of the histfile shell vari-
able), then ~/.login, and finally ~/.cshdirs (or the value
of the dirsfile shell variable) (+). The shell may read
/etc/csh.login before instead of after /etc/csh.cshrc, and
~/.login before instead of after ~/.tcshrc or ~/.cshrc and
~/.history, if so compiled; see the version shell vari-
able. (+)
Non-login shells read only /etc/csh.cshrc and ~/.tcshrc or
~/.cshrc on startup.
Of course, this only covers csh, and if you had 1000 users, sure some
would want a saner programming shell. You'd need to do the equivalent
for other shells as well.
Alternatively, you can use login.conf to set environment variables.
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