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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier+lists/zsh/users/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: zsh startup files
Date: 24 Mar 1999 17:48:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5l90cmijvs.fsf@tequila.cs.yale.edu> (raw)


Am I the only one that keeps getting annoyed by the sequence in which startup
files are read ?  It seems to be especially designed to make it easy for the
sysadmin to come up with a setup that is painful to override by users.
As a user and a syadmin who cares about users who like to override the
sysadmin's decisions, I think it should be changed.  Instead of something like

    /etc/zshenv ~/.zshenv /etc/zprofile ~/.zprofile /etc/zshrc ~/.zshrc ...

I suggest

    /etc/zshenv /etc/zprofile /etc/zshrc /etc/zlogin ~/.zshenv ~/.zprofile ...

This way the sysadmin can put in /etc/zprofile commands that should only be
executed at login time without having to worry about interference with the
user's ~/.zshenv settings.
And this way, when the sysadmin (or RedHat package maintainers) decide to put
bogus PATH and umask settings in /etc/zshrc it won't override my ~/.zprofile
choices.


	Stefan "pissed"


             reply	other threads:[~1999-03-24 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-24 22:48 Stefan Monnier [this message]
1999-03-24 23:15 ` Sweth Chandramouli
1999-03-25  0:47   ` Stefan Monnier
1999-03-25  5:53     ` Sweth Chandramouli
1999-03-25 11:17       ` Doug Morris
1999-03-25  2:20   ` Jason Price
1999-03-25  9:03 ` Peter Stephenson
     [not found]   ` <9903251002.AA18225@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
1999-03-25 10:55     ` Wolfgang Hukriede
1999-03-25 11:22       ` Peter Stephenson
1999-03-25 12:36         ` Stefan Monnier
1999-03-25 14:00           ` Peter Stephenson
1999-03-25 19:37             ` Stefan Monnier
1999-03-28  1:04               ` Bart Schaefer
1999-03-28 22:14                 ` Stefan Monnier
1999-03-29  1:57                   ` Bart Schaefer
1999-03-29  4:14                     ` Sweth Chandramouli
1999-03-29 14:15                     ` Stefan Monnier
1999-03-29 14:29                       ` Andrej Borsenkow
1999-03-31  7:14                         ` Bart Schaefer
1999-03-31  7:49                           ` Bart Schaefer
1999-04-02 13:12                           ` Stefan Monnier
1999-04-02 17:13                             ` Bart Schaefer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-14 17:38 zzapper
2006-03-14 19:50 ` Wayne Davison
2006-03-15  2:43   ` Bart Schaefer
2006-03-15 18:22     ` Phil Pennock
2006-03-16 19:29     ` Dominic Mitchell
1996-10-19 23:04 Zsh " Nate Johnston
1996-10-20 11:09 ` Zefram

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