[aklug] Re: What happened to /etc/profile?

From: Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jan 23 2009 - 00:28:00 AKST

Fedora 10 has a path variable in /etc/profile.

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 08:30 -0900, Damien Hull wrote:
> There's a section on the LPI test about the bash shell. It covers config files, login, logout, variables etc... I checked my own /etc/profile to find something very strange. There's no PATH variable.
>
> It turns out this is a wacky Debian thing. I'm on Ubuntu and it inherits wacky things from Debian. The PATH variable is in /etc/login.defs. Why does Debian do wacky things like this?
>
> Unless other distributions are doing the same thing. All my systems are running Ubuntu.
>

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