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From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Broken /etc/zshrc ?
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:55:21 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B7FEF79.5040602@mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010819175147.A1889@ay.nerim.net>

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The /etc/zshrc (system zshrc file) contains the following line:
> 
> source /etc/profile
> 
> But /etc/profile sets the path (I think this is OK). Thus, if a
> user sets his path in his .zshenv, then this path is lost because
> /etc/zshrc is sourced after the user's .zshenv file.
> 
> I don't know if the /etc/zshrc was provided when compiling and
> installing zsh or provided by my Linux distribution (SuSE 7.2).

zsh does not install any startup files

> Isn't this /etc/zshrc file broken? Shouldn't the /etc/profile
> be sourced in the /etc/zshenv (which doesn't exist here)?
>

/etc/profile should be sourced in /etc/zprofile if at all. 
Irrespectively, unconditional setting of PATH is always bad - PATH may 
be already preset to some reasonable value.

-andrej


  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-19 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-19 15:51 Vincent Lefevre
2001-08-19 16:55 ` Borsenkow Andrej [this message]
2001-08-19 18:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-19 19:12   ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-08-19 23:45     ` Bart Schaefer

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