Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:57:03 -0600 From: nicebounce@trodman.com Message-Id: <200301101657.h0AGv3c25610@tigris.pounder.sol.net> X-Authentication-Warning: tigris.pounder.sol.net: rodmant set sender to nicebounce@trodman.com (Tom Rodman) using -f To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: X-note: 1G0!G/usr/sbin/sendmail -v -t -f"nicebounce@trodman.com (Tom Rodman)" # for less traceable mail X-note: careful "From:" is autocreated by sendmail, unless you define it- then even your bogus def is honored Subject: postinstall/profile.sh: pls consider testing for preexisting symbolic link Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII -------- how about: if [ ! -f "/etc/profile" -a ! -L "/etc/profile"]; then cp -a /etc/profile.default /etc/profile fi Rightly or wrongly I setup /etc/profile as a symblic link to a network drive version of profile, so that several hosts share the same file. The postinstall/profile.sh leaves the link but then copies in the default profile, so I have to manually delete it. So, in general should there be a check for a symbolic link also as shown above. Just a thought. thanks, Tom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/