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

[Glenn Fowler]

agreed that the sh rc namespace defies predictable naming
/etc/ksh.kshrc is not an at&t idea
its sort of goofy, with the exception of ny ny, to replicate a name in a path

it was requested here
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2006-July/000511.html
"like it is done on Linux"

maybe the solaris vs linux guys can work this out offlist ...

-- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:58:19 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote:
> 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).

> ----

> Bye,
> Roland

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