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shells & re: profile



Hi,

it seems that the linux community chose bash as it's favourite shell.
Somehow (almost) all other unices use tcsh as favourite shell. Can anybody
comment on why this is so (historic reasons ?), I mean, I personally
didn't choose a shell when I started, I just took what was there (bash).

Schlomo

Read also my answers to the original mail:

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Daniel Feiglin wrote:

> 1. What config file do you edit to install a programme into one of the
> fvwm95 menus? (Specifically, I uninstalled Netscape 4.07 and installed
> 4.5; during the process it "dissappeared" from the relevant menu).
> Attempt to RTFM resulted in nothing useful.

Try looking for .fvwm95rc. There is no "build-in" setup for those menus.
some dists, like SuSE, have a config tool that a atomatically sets up the
menus properly.

> 3. Tradition has it that PATH automatically includes your current
> working directory. It seems that RH 5.1 and 5.2 using bash, have gone
> their own way. If you write (for example) hello.c and compile it to
> hello, running hello fails, but running ./hello works! Where is PATH
> actually initialised from scratch? (I finished up adding the . to the
> PATH in one of the profile scripts.) RTFM and 2 Linux kilo-books yielded
> nothing.

AFAIK it is set in /etc/profile