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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:57:15
Message-Id: 525D9E0E.1000706@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On 15/10/2013 21:34, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root.
3 >
4 > Is that normal?
5 >
6 > What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do
7 > that?
8
9
10 create the file and edit it
11
12 There's no magic to those files, they were copied there from the install
13 tarball, or from /etc/skel, or from any number of places. They are just
14 files
15
16
17 --
18 Alan McKinnon
19 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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