[csw-users] vimtutor bad trap problem when /opt/csw/bin not in $PATH

Jens Langner J.Langner at fzd.de
Wed Sep 19 15:27:58 CEST 2007


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Manish Agrawal schrieb:
> Thanks very much, there are some problems:
> 
> 1. Every student will have to do this hack in their own respective zones. They are all newbies. Since they don't know vi, how are they going to write this script in the first place? Yesterday, we all used /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get install nano to get an editor available.
> 
> 2. What is the point of having vimtutor in the first place if it does not work with the default paths? Isn't vimtutor for newbies?
> 
> 3. What are fresh users going to think of Solaris and vim if they have to first do this hack before they can use a tutorial meant for newbies?
> 
> The best solution for me is to copy /etc/default/login from the global zone while creating the zone using zonemgr, but I don't want to do it and would prefer vimtutor to just work out of the box with the Solaris defaults.

You are anyway using blastwave and vim which isn't a solaris default. I
really can't see why it hurts to automatically copy your own
/etc/default/login to all zones as soon as you create them.

cheers,
jens
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Jens Langner                                         Ph: +49-351-2602757
Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V.
Institute of Radiopharmacy - PET Center                 J.Langner at fzd.de
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