From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2950 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2000 09:05:52 -0000 Received: from ns2.primenet.com.au (HELO primenet.com.au) (?FGxnexmuChhZRzSoaHT0RI092dz3mYOa?@203.24.36.3) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 Jul 2000 09:05:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 1572 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 17:44:03 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns2.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 17:44:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 14199 invoked by alias); 7 Jul 2000 17:43:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12196 Received: (qmail 14191 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 17:43:53 -0000 Subject: Re: adding a toplevel zsh.spec.in file In-Reply-To: <1000707171820.ZM1423@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Jul 7, 2000 05:18:20 pm" To: Bart Schaefer Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:44:06 +0100 (BST) CC: Adam Spiers , zsh workers mailing list X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Zefram Bart Schaefer wrote: >If we're going to add, or replace it with, stuff that IS intended to go >in /etc/z*, there should be some kind of README or other explanatory file >added as well. Is there anything that ought to go in /etc/z* on more machines than, say, those in a single company? It seems to me that Red Hat and other Linux distributions should be shipping with no (or empty) /etc/{profile,z{sh{env,rc},profile,login},csh.*} files. We *should* add a README explaining how the existing example files are meant to be used, and explaining why it's usually a bad idea to put anything in global shell startup files. -zefram