On Ubuntu 10.4 I have edited the /etc/bash.bashrc file to set some variables like the command history size (HISTSIZE=5000), however if I create a new users Ubuntu by default gives them a .bashrc file in their home directory with this set as HISTSIZE=1000 which is overriding mine. How can I change the default .bashrc file that is created?
I have installed node.js at custom location and added the location to the $PATH in .profile file.
I have a bash script myhome.sh containing only one line:
I have a CentOS 5.7 web server, and I want to change the default place I land in when connecting using SSH.
I’m having trouble with a web application I’m writing: The web application, which runs as user nobody, needs to launch an inkscape process to manipulate some SVG files. Because this runs as user nobody, there is no home directory. What I am doing is creating a temporary directory under /tmp and trying to set that as the home directory via export HOME=/tmp/someUniqueId. I then set a few things in that “temporary” home directory, like a symlink .fonts to the folder for the font files to use.
I have for many years had my entire $HOME directory checked into subversion. This has included all my dotfiles and application profiles, many scripts, tools and hacks, my preferred basic home directory structure, not a few oddball projects and a warehouse worth of random data. This was a good thing. While it lasted.
The issue as exposed here is
solved (about files modes of the .ssh folder.