From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Georg Lehner <jorge-plan9@magma.com.ni>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] system wide profile for rc(1)
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:10:33 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20061213000601.GB1969@shodan.homeunix.net> (Martin Neubauer's
	message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:06:01 +0100")
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Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net> writes:

> * Russ Cox (rsc@swtch.com) wrote:
>> One could also simply
>>=20
>> . /rc/lib/profile
>>=20
>> at the top of the user's lib/profile if conformance was desired.
>>=20
>> Russ
>
> I also thought about that after posting. Has the additional advantage of =
not
> forcing the view of the site admin on you.
>
> Martin
>

If I am my own site admin, I can omit /rc/lib/profile and do
everything in ~/lib/profile.

If I am the site admin for other people I want to be able to force
things.  Users will apreciate my view if it is the right one.



geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com writes:

> Maybe I'm missing something, but why not just modify /rc/bin/termrc or
> termrc.local?
>

termrc (and cpurc) are only run during the boot process

/rc/lib/rcmain and ~/lib/profile are read everytime rc -l is run.

Regards,

        Jorge-Le=F3n

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    Jorge-Le=F3n