Solved Where to set a system wide alias?

[exeter]

I'd like to alias lp to lp -c. Where should I put this alias ( alias lp="lp -c" ) for it to be available to all users? Thanks.

 

[SirDice]

Depends on the shell they're using, /etc/profile is for bourne shells (sh(1), bash(1)), /etc/csh.cshrc for the C shells.

 

[mer]

I know this isn't an answer, but I've always detested things like this. I hate the global aliases on most Linux distros, I always wind up having a user profile that basically clears all the aliases and setting things the way I want.

 

[exeter]

Thank you for that SirDice. I added

alias lp="lp -c"

to the bottom of /etc/profile and it all seems to be working. Thanks again.