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authorManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-06-19 16:54:58 +0000
committerManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-06-19 16:54:58 +0000
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+++ b/chapter07/profile.xml
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@
<title>The Bash Shell Startup Files</title>
<?dbhtml filename="profile.html"?>
-<para>The shell program <filename>/bin/bash</filename> (hereafter
-referred to as just "the shell") uses a collection of startup files to
+<indexterm zone="ch-scripts-profile"><primary sortas="e-/etc/profile">/etc/profile</primary></indexterm>
+
+<para>The shell program <command>/bin/bash</command> (hereafter
+referred to as just <quote>the shell</quote>) uses a collection of startup files to
help create an environment to run in. Each file has a specific use and
may affect login and interactive environments differently. The files in
the <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> directory generally provide global
@@ -17,9 +19,9 @@ override the global settings.
</para>
<para>An interactive login shell is started after a successful login, using
-<filename>/bin/login</filename>, by reading the
+<command>/bin/login</command>, by reading the
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file. An
-interactive non-login shell is started at the command-line (e.g.
+interactive non-login shell is started at the command-line (e.g.,
<prompt>[prompt]$</prompt><command>/bin/bash</command>). A non-interactive
shell is usually present when a shell script is running. It is non-interactive
because it is processing a script and not waiting for user input between
@@ -35,31 +37,32 @@ as an interactive login shell.</para>
<para>A base <filename>/etc/profile</filename> created below only sets some
environment variables necessary for Bash to accept keystrokes properly,
-even in non-English locale. Replace "ll" with the
-two-letter code for your language (e.g. "en") and
-"CC" with the two-letter code for your country
-(e.g. "GB"). Also you may need to specify
+even in non-English locale. Replace <replaceable>[ll]</replaceable> with the
+two-letter code for your language (e.g., <quote>en</quote>) and
+<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable> with the two-letter code for your country
+(e.g., <quote>GB</quote>). Also you may need to specify
(and this is actually the preferred form) your
-character encoding (e.g. "iso8859-1") after a dot (so that the result
-is "en_GB.iso8859-1").
+character encoding (e.g. <quote>iso8859-1</quote>) after a dot (so that the result
+is <quote>en_GB.iso8859-1</quote>).
Issue the following command for more information:</para>
<screen><userinput>man 3 setlocale</userinput></screen>
-<para>The list of all locales supported by glibc can be obtained by running
+<para>The list of all locales supported by Glibc can be obtained by running
the following command:</para>
<screen><userinput>locale -a</userinput></screen>
<para>Now, when you are sure about your locale settings, create the
<filename>/etc/profile</filename> file:</para>
+
<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/profile &lt;&lt; "EOF"
# Begin /etc/profile
# Written for Linux From Scratch
# by Alexander E. Patrakov
-export LC_ALL=ll_CC
-export LANG=ll_CC
+export LC_ALL=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>
+export LANG=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>
export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
# End /etc/profile