Message-ID: <3A25FBD4.E275BB67@turk.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:03:48 +0200
From: Togan Muftuoglu
2) Where would I place commands specific to a user? ~someuser/.profile ?
~someuser/.bashrc
As this file's name says, ~/.bashrc is proprietary to bash.
A more portable solution is using ~/.profile.
<p>>
On a singel-seat desktop or linux-only network the difference doesn't matter much, but it does matter significantly if being in a heterogenious network comprising systems where bash might not be available and if /bin/sh is used as login shell.
If other than bash are used yes if Bash is used then
From default .bashrc of SuSE
# Bash knows 3 diferent shells: normal shell, interactive shell, login shell. # ~/.bashrc is read for interactive shells and ~/.profile is read for login # shells. We just let ~/.profile also read ~/.bashrc and put everything in # ~/.bashrc. So if the setup is for bash then this is the correct place to place user specific things as I understand it <p><p> -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm@turk.net 100% MS FREE Absolutely no component of Microsoft was used in the generation or posting of this e-mail. So it is virus free