From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3494 invoked from network); 25 Mar 1999 05:54:44 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Mar 1999 05:54:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 29237 invoked by alias); 25 Mar 1999 05:53:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2233 Received: (qmail 29230 invoked from network); 25 Mar 1999 05:53:53 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:53:32 -0500 From: Sweth Chandramouli To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: zsh startup files Message-ID: <19990325005332.B5194@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk References: <5l90cmijvs.fsf@tequila.cs.yale.edu> <19990324181547.A4700@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu> <5l7ls6iee4.fsf@tequila.cs.yale.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <5l7ls6iee4.fsf@tequila.cs.yale.edu> On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 07:47:31PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Which means: > 1 - if my sysadmin is stupid and places things wrong, I have to do the same. > 2 - that I can't use the same scripts on different systems. > And you're just giving me a workaround for the current situation, not > a justification for why it is that way in the first place. true on all counts. i had vague memories of this coming up before, and a quick search through the archives found a thread about this back in 95. the basic issue there was the question of whether or not NO_RCS should affect sourcing of /etc/zlogout; zoltan pointed out that by setting NO_RCS in a user's ~/.zshenv, (s)he could avoid _all_ of the system init scripts except for /etc/zshenv, and suggested changing the order the files were sourced to the one you proposed. i couldn't find any responses to that, however, so i guess the topic was just dropped. does anyone who was active back then remember why? -- sweth. -- Sweth Chandramouli IS Coordinator, The George Washington University / (202) 994 - 8521 (V) / (202) 994 - 0458 (F) *