`<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Dan McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danmcd@omniti.com" target="_blank">danmcd@omniti.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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).<br>
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I'd appreciate some on-list feedback about who does and doesn't change their /etc/profile or /etc/.login vs. what we ship.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This isn't OmniOS specific, but every production Solaris box I've managed for the last decade<br></div><div>or two has had one or both fixed (usually .login, because tcsh was the default, now /etc/profile<br>for other shells). Primarily to eradicate the completely unnecessary calls to quota and mail.<br><br></div><div>I've seen some horrible monstrosities perpetrated by commercial software or well-meaning<br></div><div>power users. PowerPath has this habit of whacking its stuff onto /etc/profile, that's the one<br></div><div>3rd-party application that I've seen on a routine basis.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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.<br>
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I appreciate your feedback!<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Dan McD -- OmniOS Engineering<br>
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