On Fri, August 5, 2005 2:46 am, Eric Blake said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Igor Pechtchanski on 8/4/2005 10:09 AM: >> What if the user has to set an environment variable for >> /etc/profile.d/bash-completion.sh to run? You could check for that >> environment variable in /etc/profile.d/bash-completion.sh and exit if >> it's >> not set. And it's easier than editing their .bashrc... > > The env variable would have to be set before bash starts execution, since > /etc/profile finishes before the user's ~/.bashrc starts. > >> >> BTW, one drawback of the /etc/profile.d approach is that it only works >> for login shells. > > True enough. And bash only looks at ~/.bashrc for non-login interactive > shells, nothing else. So I guess we are stuck with telling users to edit > ~/.bashrc no matter what.
Oh well - never mind :) J.
