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On 1 May 2012, at 23:52, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:11:37PM +0100, Stroller wrote |
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>> So /etc/profile contains the following message: |
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>> # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user |
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>> # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/. |
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>> export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano} |
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>> export PAGER=${PAGER:-/usr/bin/less} |
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>> Therefore I have created a plain text file /etc/profile.d/essential_defaults |
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> … The items you mentioned are EDITOR and PAGER. For the |
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> official way of changing global settings, see... |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=5&style=printable |
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> for examples. In my case… |
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Nope, those are merely the next two lines from the file when I ran `grep -C X` to find where I'd read about putting files in /etc/profile.d/. |
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If you read my original post (solved) now, you'll see that in my actual my_defaults.sh file I only concern myself with the MANPAGER, the history file and vi-style line editing (for Bash). |
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Sorry if this was unclear, |
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Stroller. |
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