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Antergos / Cnchi

A modern, flexible online system installer for Antergos Linux
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~/.bashrc.aliases has problematic aliases #1133

Closed manuel-192 closed 5 years ago

manuel-192 commented 5 years ago

Problem:

Some aliases (that will be added for all users including root) have problematic aliases defined in ~/.bashrc.aliases. Aliases that simply add sudo to a program name cause unexpected results. Examples of problematic aliases: alias systemctl='sudo systemctl' alias journalctl='sudo journalctl'

Steps To Reproduce:

  1. Install Antergos
  2. Log in as a normal user, start a terminal
  3. Use any of the problematic aliases, e.g. systemctl status lightd (and press Tab key to expand)

Log Files

N/A

Additional Notes:

Using sudo in aliases this way should be avoided, not all commands work well with it.

Fortunately, this one is quite simple to fix.

karasu commented 5 years ago

@lots0logs likes them... :grin: I'll let him decide as it was him who added them.

manuel-192 commented 5 years ago

Added a bit more info to "Steps To Produce" (step 4). So this problem shows itself especially on new installs. But the alias with sudo causes other issues, e.g. with the --user option.

lots0logs commented 5 years ago

Considering the amount of time we've had them there and the fact that this is the first time it has come up as an issue I think the majority of people find them useful. Until such time that no longer appears to be the case we'll keep them. We can reopen this later if warranted.

manuel-192 commented 5 years ago

I must disagree with this decision. For me personally it is not a big problem since I can fix it locally, but many newcomers can be in trouble till they realize this is the reason for the odd behavior of some commands.