I'm not seeing that on my system. Assuming that your bash rpm verifies (meaning that nothing has modified the bash startup scripts), my best guess would be that some package has dropped a file into /etc/profile.d that creates the directory. Finding that file would be a first step on figuring out what it's trying to do. Ali On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > Dear All, > > Could someone give me some pointers. I never had it on CentOS 4,5,6. On > freshly installed CentOS 7 ("development workstation" installation type > with several extra things) when I log in as root in console I get this > message: > > attempting to create directory /root/perl5 > > and indeed empty directory /root/perl5 is being created. (And my > understanding is that that is done for every user at login). Can anyone > point to what does it and what is the rationale behind that. > > Not that I no not like perl in particular, but I do not like any tweaking > of anything happening as a user logs in. > > Thanks for all your help. > > And my apologies for being this ignorant person who likely doesn't know > some trivial thing... > > Sincerely yours, > Valeri > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos