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amittp
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 Jul 2002
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Location: USA
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 Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 7:00 am Post subject: /etc/skel could be beter, default shell "sh"? why |
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Most of the users like to have bash as their default shell. While adding a user, newbies forget to give -s option. This makes sh as the default shell. Well sh is linked to bash. But it behaves differntly. It doesnot read .bashrc. Most of the users then lauch their xterms using -ls option, which is not quite right.
My suggestion is to make default shell to be bash and change /etc/skel/.bash_profile and /etc/skel/.bashrc which are bit weird.
since bashrc is being sourced by bash_profile, it would be better that bashrc contents whatever right now lies in bash_profile.
It seems that, PATHS are being updated to /etc/profile. So it would be good idea if we have /etc/skel/.bashrc as given below:
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if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then
source /etc/profile
fi
eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
alias ls='ls --color=always -phsFv'
alias rm='rm -iv'
alias cp='cp -iv'
alias mv='mv -iv'
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Aliases can be different
And /etc/skel/.bash_profile can be this way:
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if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
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This way PS1 will get value too from /etc/profile and we wont have to face default bash promt
I hope these changes will make things much easier and clean.
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Joined: 20 Apr 2002
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Location: Chantilly, VA
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| Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| you cannot have .bashrc source /etc/bash_profice because /etc/bash_profile is allowed to output text and .bashrc is not. otherwise i agree and have already submitted a "bug report" to get them to move the aliases to .bashrc |
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