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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:30:45 +1000 (EST)
From: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/profile
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On 21 Sep, CyberZombie wrote:
>  Or 'mkdir -p "$HOME"'...

No, that would do entirely the wrong thing!

If the place where /home is supposed to be mounted hasn't been mounted,
the last thing you want to do is create an alternate /home.

I can imagine the weird problems and reports ("all my files
disappeared!"), that doing mkdir -p would cause!

My change means that if you can't make the user directory, you just
don't try to create the skeleton files in it for them.

>  >$ diff /etc/profile /etc/profile.orig
>  >38,39c38
>  >< if [ ! -d "$HOME" ] && mkdir "$HOME"
>  >< then
>  >---
> >  
>  >
>  >>if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then

luke


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