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Re: help with understanding diffs in startup files

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From: Andrew Main <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: luomat+zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Timothy J Luoma)
Subject: Re: help with understanding diffs in startup files
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 11:15:09 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199712081042.FAA01749@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Timothy J Luoma" at Dec 8, 97 05:42:12 am

Timothy J Luoma wrote:
>Well, there's this Linux account I have where there is some system file  
>which is setting up some variables after my .zshenv.  Really annoying.  Sun  
>and NeXT have never had this problem.

It is a particular problem with Slackware.

>Anyway, the only systemwide I can find is /etc/zprofile, and it isn't in there.

/etc/zlogin, /etc/zshrc and /etc/zshenv are also used if present.

>Is there a way I can tell zsh to let me know what files it is sourcing  
>during startup?

You could strace it.  "zsh -x" might also have some benefit.

-zefram

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