[OmniOS-discuss] Who alters /etc/profile or /etc/.login on their boxes?

[Peter Tribble]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:

> This is a serious question.  A recent illumos push mildly affects people
> who have, but in OmniOS's case, it's a mild change (not a horrible one).
>
> I'd appreciate some on-list feedback about who does and doesn't change
> their /etc/profile or /etc/.login vs. what we ship.
>

This isn't OmniOS specific, but every production Solaris box I've managed
for the last decade
or two has had one or both fixed (usually .login, because tcsh was the
default, now /etc/profile
for other shells). Primarily to eradicate the completely unnecessary calls
to quota and mail.

I've seen some horrible monstrosities perpetrated by commercial software or
well-meaning
power users. PowerPath has this habit of whacking its stuff onto
/etc/profile, that's the one
3rd-party application that I've seen on a routine basis.


> The next bloody update (and r151014) will alter the default file, and
> because of IPS, it won't be replaced IF the file was altered from the stock
> configuration.  Fortunately for OmniOS, it's mostly a don't-care.
>
> I appreciate your feedback!
>
> Thanks,
> Dan McD -- OmniOS Engineering
>
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