Enviroment-Settings

[olli2003]

Dear all

I've tried to find the enviroment-settings for specified users but I havn't found(( Where can I find this,
f. ex. the enviroment-settings for root?
Is it a file that I can edit, can't I?
Is it written down in the shell wich is used by the user?My actuell probelm is, that I'll want to set the env for one user for one more path (/usr/local/bin) wich isn't existing in it's enviroment yet. Thanks a lot!!!
Regards Oliver

 

[Boria]

Hi Oliver,
for specified user you can edit $HOME/.profile (for Korn and Born shell) or $HOME/.login $HOME/.cshrc foles for C shell. You can edit /etc/environment file for all user to add (for example) /usr/local/bin to $PATH variable.
Regards Boris

 

[olli2003]

Hi Boria
Thanks a lot! The .profile , .login and also the .cshrc isn't the right place to configure this I think. The /etc/environment I've found, but in my case it'll just use for the env of "root". I've another env for the other user and further on I don't know to find the entries.

Best Regards
Oliver

 

[trifo]

Hi Oliver!

You should check out /etc/profile . This is the common part of environement settings for ksh, etc. (It is not really correct, but does the work somehow. I am not sure if it is suitable for all shells, but works surely for sh and ksh. bash even).

Thus when you log in, first /etc/profile is evaluated (run), and it is followed by <USER_HOME>/.profile

--Trifo

 

[comtec17]

/etc/profile or /.profile is where the root account enviroment is.

 

[trifo]

comtec17: I think you aern't right. /etc/profile applies to all users not only root.

--Trifo

 

[Boria]

Hi,
/etc/environment applies to all users too.
Boris