Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

[David Brodbeck]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> Actually, that's my biggest gripe about Linux systems. They set things
> in /etc/* shell profiles that *can't* be turned off in user rc files,
> because the ones in /etc run last. (And usually more than
> once. Idiots.)

I haven't encountered that, at least on RedHat.  I routinely override
stuff in /etc/profile in my local .bash_profile.  The bash manpage is
pretty explicit that /etc/profile is read first.  Are some distros
doing something silly like sourcing /etc/profile in .bash_profile?

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David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington