Review Request: elektra - /etc/profiles.d question and .csh needed...

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Wed Feb 21 18:44:45 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 21 February 2007, kwizart wrote:

> Most of the packages i have found in
> /etc/profiles.d (fc6) own the shebang and have executable bit set...

It's likely that all those are minor packaging bugs/oversights.

Executing profile scripts isn't generally useful because the invoking shell's 
environment is not affected by whatever variables the profile script sets, 
and there's no need for scripts to be executable in order to be sourced.  
Some more background info: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/225983#c5




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