As with normal users, include /usr/games in the default PATH of root

Get rid of the (insulting)
We recommend that you create a non-root account...
message from single user mode shell startups.

If /rescue is at the head of $PATH (which is how it starts out in /rescue/sh
unless changed by something - and has been since NetBSD 3) don't blindly
simply change it to a PATH that doesn't have /res

If /rescue is at the head of $PATH (which is how it starts out in /rescue/sh
unless changed by something - and has been since NetBSD 3) don't blindly
simply change it to a PATH that doesn't have /rescue in it at all.

This doesn't solve the "/rescue/tar execs /usr/bin/gzip" problem completely,
as if PATH is in the environment when /rescue/sh is started, that one will
override the shell's built in PATH, but this is better than nothing.

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uname -p, pointed out by various

Use sysctl -n hw.machine_arch so this works on e.g. aarch64

Ues HTTPS

/usr/X11R6 has been empty on most NetBSD installations since 2008,
and the last few straggling ports dumped it in 2015. It's time to
prune references to /usr/X11R6 from our config files.

Update example PKG_PATH entry to use the CDN frontend, use uname -p instead
of uname -m for processor subdirectory, and derive the OS release from
uname -r.

tset was useful for fixed terminals and rarely changing configurations.
But for current software terminal emulators and varying network
logins it's just confusing.

No longer run tset when logging in

tset was useful for fixed terminals and rarely changing configurations.
But for current software terminal emulators and varying network
logins it's just confusing.

No longer run tset when logging in.

ok @martin

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Freshen up the commented-out suggested PKG_PATH a bit.

Point first to 6.0 packages, then to packages for 5.1 or 5.0.
The latter have reduced usefullness in -current or netbsd-6 until
we have a compat50 package.

There is no .../5.99 path to use for PKG_PATH, so change it to 5.1 instead.
Also refer the reader to pkg_install.conf as an alternative.

`` -> $()

netbsd.org -> NetBSD.org for URLs.

Clearer wording when nagging about root logins.

Add "/pub" to the PKG_PATH lines in the default .cshrc and .profile so they
actually have a chance of working. Also provide an example of how to include
more than one path.

Sprinkle /usr/X11R7 where relevant. rc.d/x{fs,dm} are left to be done.

Add commented out example of PKG_PATH to make using binary packages
easier.

Use hostname(1) in preference to uname(1) in case /usr isn't mounted.

Revision 1.2 of dot.shrc changed the prompt to use a HOST variable without
setting it anywhere, so set it here.

If we are going to point ENV at .shrc, and link this in as /.profile as well
as /root/.profile, then use /root/.shrc rather than $HOME/.shrc otherwise
single user mode tries to use /.shrc...

Make the tset stuff actually set the environment variables again.
Someone was on crack.

Simplify the tset crap, and do not set $HOME gratuitously.

1.) bring over the second half of David Brownlee's change to dot.login --
don't query the user for terminal type if the type is not `unknown'

2.) change this a little in both the csh and the [k]

1.) bring over the second half of David Brownlee's change to dot.login --
don't query the user for terminal type if the type is not `unknown'

2.) change this a little in both the csh and the [k]sh cases -- do call
tset(1) even if the terminal type is known (so that TERMCAP is set
properly, but don't have it query the user.

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Port to [k]sh(1) startup files David Brownlee's improvement from
cvs rdiff -r1.4 -r1.5 basesrc/etc/root/dot.login

As there, text is from Miles Nordin.

(Ab?)use some sh(1) features:
* Put the aliases in a separate file, referenced by $ENV, so that they're
present in subshells.
* Do the same to make `set -o emacs' happen automatically in interactiv

(Ab?)use some sh(1) features:
* Put the aliases in a separate file, referenced by $ENV, so that they're
present in subshells.
* Do the same to make `set -o emacs' happen automatically in interactive
shells. (Yay, line editing by default!)
* Use `export FOO=bar' syntax, as it's shorter and other sh(1)-like shells
all support it these days.

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