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Started by Reiner Huober
Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:55
Systemwide aliases (.bashrc, ENV)
Author: Reiner Huober
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:55
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:55
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Hi there, I don't know if "bug" is the right word, but I think that the "bash-wizards" are most likely to be in this group and i found now group like "gnu.bash.discuss". on our Systems, we'd like to have systemwide aliases (like "alias passwd=yppasswd"), because there is a need for some of our aliases (like "soft='source /usr/local/scripts/soft'") to be not just command, but an alias or function. We could define them in /etc/profile for a login shell, but unfortunately most of our Sun-Openwin Shells are interactive, but not login shells (our profile is quite long, so starting bash -login on all new xterms would be time consuming). We could set "ENV" to something like /etc/bashrc, but this is only obeyed by noninteractive shells. We could recommend our users to have the aliases in their .bashrc, but accidently some of our users (>300) delete their files and then they say "why can't I set the passwd" or "whereis that soft command gone". Currently we use functions, which we declare in "/etc/profile", and export them. But this breaks our "env"-command. I wonder if this bash-thing has nothing like a systemwide "bashrc" for interaction, nologin shells. Thanks in advance Reiner Huober --------------- email: reiner.huober@rz.uni-ulm.de
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