Hi,

I am newbie to Solaris and system administration in general, and I have a couple of questions about files in my HOME directory.

When I perform ls -la, I get the following list of files:

This week-end, I found out that I could not access 'svcadm' may be because my path was missing /usr/sbin/. I am getting the bash shell when I log in (echo $SHELL returns /usr/bin/bash).

I have been doing some reading on the Internet and it seems like:

i) local.cshrc is the shell start-up initialization file for the C shell, correct? If yes, it is not executed because I am under bash, correct?

ii) local.login is the login initialization file for the C shell, correct? If yes, it is not executed because I am under bash, correct?

iii) local.profile is the shell start-up initialization for the Bourne and Korn shells, correct? If yes, it is not executed because I am under bash, correct?

iv) What is the '.profile' file exactly? In my case, it exports a couple of variables and defines the default prompt. Is this file executed when I log in?

v) What is the '.bashrc' file exactly? It define the default prompt in my case. Is this file executed when I log in?

vi) '.bash_login' is a file I had to create as part of installation instructions for Maven. It exports the Maven path and adds it to the PATH variable. This file is obviously executed when I log in, because without it, I cannot run Maven from anywhere.

My question is: is there a way to export those variables for everyone who logs in? If yes, how should I proceed?

vii) '.bash_history' contains the list of commands I have been using recently. I have no questions about it.

viii) When I echo $PATH, I get

which fits perfectly with what I am doing in .bash_login. It seems that only .bash_login is executed when I am logging in? Is this correct? Or are other default files executed too?

Thanks,

JVerstry

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I have found a link (Bash env settings problems - comp.unix.solaris | Google Groups) which helped me answering some of my question. I have also performed a couple of tests.

/etc/profile is first executed, then .bash_login.

.profile is not executed, because .bash_login exists and is readable.

Since my .profile file contains:

this explains why I could not access svcadm.

JVerstry

No,

for svcadm you have to be root.
Profile is executed every time you log in.

cu
lowbyte

I was/am root. Thanks.