> On 22/07/14 09:55 AM, Neitsab wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As I was checking some stuff about environment variables, I noticed that >> I have one file in /etc/profile.d which doesn't have the same perms as >> the others: >> >> $ ls -la /etc/profile.d/ >> total 72 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 19 juil. 20:36 . >> drwxr-xr-x 91 root root 4096 22 juil. 15:04 .. >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 102 24 oct. 2013 gpm.sh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2154 21 mars 02:16 infinality-settings.sh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1972 7 janv. 2014 infinality-settings.sh.old >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 140 28 mars 15:29 jre.csh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 28 mars 15:29 jre.sh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 156 15 mars 22:09 libreoffice-common.csh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 156 15 mars 22:09 libreoffice-common.sh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1052 4 juil. 14:44 locale.sh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50 1 juil. 11:55 mozilla-common.csh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50 1 juil. 11:55 mozilla-common.sh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 699 19 juin 21:08 perlbin.csh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 668 19 juin 21:08 perlbin.sh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115 13 mai 23:37 seahorse-ssh-askpass.sh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36 20 janv. 2014 vdpau_vaapi.sh >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1881 23 juin 22:05 vte.sh >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115 11 juin 2013 x11-ssh-askpass.sh >> >> $ pacman -Qo /etc/profile.d/vte.sh >> /etc/profile.d/vte.sh belongs to vte3 0.36.3-1 >> >> I verified it wasn't some bad commands on my side which changed this >> file's perms by reinstalling it together with vte-common, however the >> file remains 644. >> >> Does anybody have any hints about why this file, which is a .sh script, >> doesn't have execute permissions like the others in /etc/profile.d >> folder? I didn't find any change in latest PKGBUILDs which would cause >> such permissions, so should I suppose it is an upstream decision? >> >> Regards > > The permissions don't really matter because they're sourced as long as > they're readable. > > It's incorrect for upstream to be doing this though, because their > script needs to be run for every interactive shell. I already filed a > bug about it: > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39684 > > Arch needs to provide a separate directory sourced in non-login shells > and put this there instead. Hi, sorry for the delay I forgot to re-subscribe to the list digest after posting this. Thanks for your answer, this addresses my interrogations. Cheers
