NAME

       sysprofile - modular centralized shell configuration

DESCRIPTION

       sysprofile  is  a  generic  approach  to configure shell settings in a modular and centralized way mostly
       aimed at avoiding work for lazy sysadmins.  It has only been tested to work with the bash shell.

       It basically consists of the small /etc/sysprofile shell script which invokes other small  shell  scripts
       having  a .bash suffix which are contained in the /etc/sysprofile.d/ directory.  The system administrator
       can drop in any script he wants without any naming convention other than that the scripts need to have  a
       .bash suffix to enable automagic sourcing by /etc/sysprofile.

       This  mechanism  is  set  up  by  inserting  a small shell routine into /etc/profile for login shells and
       optionally  into  /etc/bashrc  and/or  /etc/bash.bashrc  for  non-login  shells  from  where  the  actual
       /etc/sysprofile script is invoked:

           if [ -f /etc/sysprofile ]; then
                   . /etc/sysprofile
           fi

       For  using  "sysprofile"  under  X11, one can source it in a similar way from /etc/X11/Xsession or your X
       display manager's Xsession file to provide the same shell environment as under the console in  X11.   See
       the example files in /usr/share/doc/sysprofile/ for illustration.

       For usage of terminal emulators with a non-login bash shell under X11, take care to enable sysprofile via
       /etc/bash.bashrc.   If  not  set  this  way,  your  terminal emulators won't come up with the environment
       defined by the scripts in /etc/sysprofile.d/.

       Users not wanting /etc/sysprofile to be sourced for their environment can easily disable  it's  automatic
       mechanism.   It can be disabled by simply creating an empty file called $HOME/.nosysprofile in the user's
       home directory using e.g. the touch(1) command.

       Any single configuration file in /etc/sysprofile.d/ can be overridden by any user by creating  a  private
       $HOME/.sysprofile.d/  directory  which  may  contain a user's own version of any configuration file to be
       sourced instead of the system default.  It's names have  just  to  match  exactly  the  system's  default
       /etc/sysprofile.d/   configuration   files.    Empty   versions   of   these   files   contained  in  the
       $HOME/.sysprofile.d/ directory automatically disable sourcing of the system wide version.

       Naturally, users can add and include their own private script inventions to be automagically executed  by
       /etc/sysprofile at login time.

OPTIONS

       There  are  no  options  other  than those dictated by shell conventions.  Anything is defined within the
       configuration scripts themselves.

SEE ALSO

       The README files and configuration examples contained in /etc/sysprofile.d/ and the manual pages bash(1),
       xdm(1x), xdm.options(5), and wdm(1x).  Recommended further  reading  is  everything  related  with  shell
       programming.

       If  you  need  a  similar  mechanism  for  executing  code  at  logout time check out the related package
       syslogout(8) which is a very close companion to sysprofile.

BUGS

       sysprofile in its current form is mainly restricted to bash(1) syntax.  In fact it is actually  a  rather
       embarrassing  quick  and  dirty hack than anything else - but it works.  It  serves the practical need to
       enable a centralized bash configuration  until something better  becomes  available.   Your  constructive
       criticism  in  making   this   into something better" is very welcome.  Before i forget to mention it: we
       take patches... ;-)

AUTHOR

       sysprofile was developed by Paul  Seelig  <pseelig@debian.org>  specifically  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux
       system.   Feel  free to port it to and use it anywhere else under the conditions of either the GNU public
       license or the BSD license or both.  Better yet, please help to make it into  something  more  worthwhile
       than it currently is.

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