From: lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam) Subject: Re: WHAT HAVE I TO DO TO SET UP THE .PROFILE Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1993 03:01:19 GMT
Bryan E. Glancey Jr (glancebe@omnigate.clarkson.edu) wrote:
> Rachid BELMOUHOUB <belmouh@cig.ensmp.fr> (belmouh@idefix.ensmp.fr) wrote:
> : Hi,
> : I have succefully now installed the SLS 1.03 release, on my 486DX50 clone,
> : I went through the Linux user's guide in search of informations about how to
> : configur my system but haven't found lot of things about the file .profile
> : I tryed to set the PATH environment variable to run X11, I did like in my
> : .cshrc file on a sun at work but after sourcing the .profile, I have run
> : printenv and none of the changes I've made was taken, I tryed unset PATH
> : and I had an answer that the systen can't unset PATH. Is there any document
> : that explains how to do this, or any one here that could help me.
> : Thanx
> : Rachid
> :
> ME TO!! Also, any information anyone can give me on which are
> the auto running shell files (I am used to the .cshrc and .login) would
> be apreciated.
cshrc, .login are files read by csh, tcsh. .profile is read by bash
when it's started up as a login shell. SLS uses bash by default, so
profile should be used. See the man pages for the shells may help.
Regards,
Savio Lam.