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Re: default skel files (Re: PAGER=less)



On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:41:31AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > Strongly seconded. For example, I strongly hate the global
> > 'alias rm rm -i' found on some systems. Let this decision for the user,
> > please.
> 
> Then, I'd also like to remove (or comment out) the following lines
> in src/etc/skel/dot.cshrc (derived from 4.4BSD Lite2 merge!?):
> 
> ---
> alias h               history 25
> alias j               jobs -l
> alias la      ls -a
> alias lf      ls -FA
> alias ll      ls -lA
> alias su      su -m
> 
> setenv        EDITOR  vi
> setenv        VISUAL  ${EDITOR}
> setenv        EXINIT  'set autoindent'
> setenv        PAGER   more
> ---
> 
> Especially the default EXINIT is so annoying me.
> 
> Probably very few admins use our useradd(8) tool,
> or all of you have proper own skel files?

This ends up in the user's .cshrc so I'd say it's less of a problem
(I never had theses in my .cshrc :), but I've no problems with removing
them.

The problem with setting in /etc/csh.* is that a user can't edit the file
to remove them.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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