On Jun 05, "Karl M. Hegbloom" <psu25682@odin.cc.pdx.edu> wrote: >What if we had an /etc/profile.d (not invented here) where packages >(like postgresql) could drop a startup file for /etc/profile to source >in a for f in /etc/profile.d/* loop? Long answer: this has already discussed many times. Look in the archives of this mailing list. Short answer: no. -- ciao, Marco