Re: env.d

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:06:37 +0200
Pieter Breed <[email protected]> wrote:
> How do I set system wide aliases?  For example:  I have gotten used to
> alias ll="ls --aolor=auto -lp"

There is not a standard location.  The easiest place to put it is in
/etc/profile.  However, as with all system-wide changes, you might want
to think about whether or not every user of your system would want this
alias.  I recommend adding it to /etc/skel/.bashrc (the files that all
new users get copied into their home directories when their accounts are
created) and then to your root and user startup files, too.  I
personally keep a ~/.aliases file and source it in my ~/.bashrc.

> Another thing.  My (KDE) konsole doesn show the green & blue prompt
> like a console login does.  It shows the default bash prompt (ugly...)
> sh-2.05a$

This drives me nuts, too.  What you want to do is have konsole start
with the --ls option.  bash is supposed to source a subset of your login
files even when you start a non-login shell, but it doesn't seem to.  
Another problem I ran into when trying to get konsole to start with
--ls is that I was unable to change the properties of konsole when
launched from the launch bar.  I had to create an icon on the desktop
which starts "konsole --ls %i %m".  YMMV

-- 
Chad Huneycutt