Redhat 7.3 and rm aliases

Collins erichey2
Mon May 17 11:39:25 PDT 2004


On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:09:55 -0700 "Net Llama!"
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On 10/26/2002 12:50 PM, Collins wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:19:28 -0600 Andrew Mathews
> > <andrew_mathews at linux-works.org> wrote:
> > 
> >>Collins Richey wrote:
> >>
> >>>One of the traits I hate most in a distro is the decsion made 
> >>>without asking to alias everything like rm with a prompt for 
> >>>confirmation (even for the root user #!&%).  
> > 
> > One of my first thoughts.   Unfortunately there are no such
> > aliases anywhere in ~ or /etc.
> 
> I'm not following you.  Redhat has forever aliased those 3 in
> ~/.bashrc. 
>   Are you saying that somehow its not happening on your system?
> 

Thanks, I was beginning to think I was loosing my mind.  I kept
looking at ~/.bashrc, i.e. /home/collins/.bashrc, but Redhat only puts
those aliases in for the root user!!!.  Much embarassment, but once I
looked in the right place, problem solved.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Redhat 7.3 system


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