Re: A bit of Linux advice yet again??

From: Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 3 Feb 2003 16:57:16 -0800
Message-ID: <91884734.0302031657.18142bc3@posting.google.com>

Norman Dunbar <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message news:<E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA703417DD2_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk>...
> Hi Tim,
>
> I'm not 100% sure, but isn't /etc/profile always run as it sets up stuff
> you (the sys admin) want setting up for all users, and then it looks for
> the others. It certainly does on my HP servers - /etc/profile then
> $HOME/.profile where $HOME is appropriate to the user logging in -
> obviously !

Be wary of advice given based on HP servers - hp/ux is by itself in the unix/oracle world for how it searches /etc.

Of course, all unix are more-or-less converging, but there are still gotchas between them. Linux has an advantage in being a workalike and not quite as subject to SYS-V/BSD idiosyncracies.

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@home is bogus.
I once worked on Duplix, which had both SYS-V and BSD "universes!"

Received on Mon Feb 03 2003 - 18:57:16 CST