Suggest using .login/.profile to set environment variables, not

.cshrc/.bashrc/.zshrc/.shrc

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips b/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
index f4017c4..6f423b3 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
@@ -114,10 +114,9 @@ the environment variable HTTP_AUTH to 'basic:*'.
 %
 You can permanently set environment variables for your shell by putting them
 in a startup file for the shell.  The name of the startup file varies
-depending on the shell - csh and tcsh uses .cshrc, bash uses .bashrc, zsh uses
-.zshenv, ksh uses .kshrc, and the Bourne shell (/bin/sh) uses .profile (and
-through a little bit of trickery in .profile also .shrc)
-Other shells will often also read .profile
+depending on the shell - csh and tcsh uses .login, bash, sh, ksh and zsh use
+.profile.  When using bash, sh, ksh or zsh, don't forget to export the
+variable.
 %
 If you are running xterm, the default TERM variable will be 'xterm'.  If you
 set this environment variable to 'xterm-color' instead, a lot of programs will