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Re: PATCH: newuser system

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From: Danek Duvall <duvall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH: newuser system
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:28:55 -0800
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 06:00:54AM +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> } It's designed to be running assuming .zshrc doesn't initially exist and
> } doesn't assume (nor probe) any other shell settings.
> 
> Presuming that Clint will do something sensible for Debian, we should find
> people to check a few other standard OS distributions (FreeBSD, NetBSD,
> RedHat Linux, perhaps Solaris, etc.) to see if their standard new-user
> skeletons might already include a .zshrc.  I don't recall having seen any
> but I'm not exposed to as many OS variants as I used to be.

Solaris does not (nor will it, likely), though obviously any individual
administrator may have set such a thing up.  Zsh might include
documentation saying that if there is a skeleton .zshrc, you might include
certain lines in it to provide the same behavior as the zsh default ...

danek

References:
- PATCH: newuser system
  - From: Peter Stephenson
- Re: PATCH: newuser system
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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