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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: /etc/rc.conf
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:33:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43EFEFEE.5010004@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1139794030.11967.4.camel@capella.catmur.co.uk>

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Edward Catmur wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 19:56 -0500, Forrest Voight wrote:
>> On 2/12/06, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> Forrest Voight wrote:
>>>> I was using an old gentoo system. Forget about KEYMAP.
>>>> But, what about UNICODE? That is related to KEYMAP and consolefont.
>>>> Shouldn't EDITOR and XSESSION be in a user-specific place?
>>> I guess you didn't really understand the code. They can be in a
>>> user-specific place.
>> Then why can't it  be in /etc/skel?
> 
> Changing /etc/skel only affects new users. /etc/rc.conf affects all
> users that don't override it in their env.

And even then, it's only copied over when you specify the -m option to
useradd. It isn't done by default.

Thanks,
Donnie


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-13  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-12 19:16 [gentoo-dev] /etc/rc.conf Forrest Voight
2006-02-12 19:38 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-02-12 23:33   ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-02-12 23:49     ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-02-13  0:03       ` [gentoo-dev] /etc/rc.conf Forrest Voight
2006-02-13  0:37         ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-02-13  0:56           ` Forrest Voight
2006-02-13  1:27             ` Edward Catmur
2006-02-13  2:33               ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2006-02-13  9:43                 ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-02-13 12:19                   ` Forrest Voight
2006-02-13 12:26                     ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-02-13 21:51                       ` Forrest Voight
2006-02-13 22:10                         ` Olivier Crete
2006-02-13 22:24                           ` Forrest Voight
2006-02-13 23:42                             ` John Myers
2006-02-14  0:01                             ` Alec Warner
2006-02-14  0:26                               ` Mike Frysinger
2006-02-14  1:07                                 ` Forrest Voight
2006-02-14  1:15                                   ` Mike Frysinger
2006-02-14 10:28                                     ` John Mylchreest
2006-02-14 11:16                                       ` Forrest Voight
2006-02-12 23:52     ` [gentoo-dev] /etc/rc.conf Daniel Drake
2006-02-12 21:49 ` Mike Frysinger

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