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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:58:11 -0300
From:      "J. M. Albores" <jote@bigfoot.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie: The "PS1" environment variable & others.
Message-ID:  <378C0AD3.42A7857B@bigfoot.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907131050400.15397-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>

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Doug wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, J. M. Albores wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > I was surprised that
> > (after a short experience with Linux) csh was the default shell for root
> > after FreeBSD installation!
> > Which is convenient for which purpose?
> 
>         Greg already explained that to you, did you not understand his
> response?

I understood perfectly (I believe ;) ) him & you too.
I could install minicom today "as port" and it had to look for
kermit-VER.tgz somewhere in the net (it wasn't in the CD set -?!?!-) and
it did it perfectly good! I think I am beggining to understand FreeBSD.
BTW, what's the reason to have a hardlink to ~/.profile in "/"? Maybe a
bug?

> 
> > In my machine, every user has his own .profile at ~/ by default.
> > If I log as root, my /.profile is the same of /root/.profile. If I edit
> > one file, the other changes too. And /.profile is NOT a symlink to
> > /root/.profile. (?!) It has just "common" file permissions. I don't
> > understand this.
> 
>         It's not a soft link, it's a hard link. Do this:
> 
> ls -li /.profile /root/.profile
> 
> If you don't understand what you're seeing, man ls.
> [...]

I guess I did, thanks.
--
J M Albores


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