[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: /etc/ksh.kshrc for ksh93[PSARC/2006/587 Timeout: 10/24/2006]

[Roland Mainz]

John Plocher wrote:
> 
> Nit:  With this proposal, we will have the following shell config files
> living in /etc:
> 
>         /etc/profile
>         /etc/suid_profile
>         /etc/.login
>         /etc/ksh.kshrc
>         /etc/default/su
> 
> Where does the name "ksh.kshrc" come from?  I'm worried that we don't
> seem to have or be following any naming pattern for these shell startup
> files.

/etc/ksh.kshrc comes from AT&T and the naming scheme was adopted by
other shells, too - for example bash has /etc/bash.bashrc for the same
purpose and we may (not this case, not this case, not...) want to add
something like /etc/sh.shrc and ~/.shrc to the POSIX shell standard in
the future.

>From a viewpoint as an adminstator the "/etc/ksh.kshrc"&co. files are
VERY usefull since it avoids the problem to update a few zillion
~/.kshrc files in user accounts (which is a nightmare for the current
Solaris /usr/bin/ksh - it neither sets a default editor mode (which is
one of the primary reasons why many beginners prefer "bash") nor is
there a proper way to set one globally).

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Bye,
Roland

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