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Hi,

I'm looking for advice on where is the best place on Solaris to put a script that will setup system vairables prior to any users loging in. I've tried /etc/rc3.d without much success as the variables do not appear in the output from an env command.

I want the system to have these variables set without any user intervention.

Thanx.

From the man pages:

The basic environment is initialized to:

HOME=your-login-directory
LOGNAME=your-login-name
PATH=/usr/bin:
SHELL=last-field-of-passwd-entry
MAIL=/var/mail/your-login-name
TZ=timezone-specification

For Bourne shell and Korn shell logins, the shell executes
/etc/profile and $HOME/.profile, if it exists. For C shell
logins, the shell executes /etc/.login, $HOME/.cshrc, and
$HOME/.login. The default /etc/profile and /etc/.login
files check quotas (see quota(1M)), print /etc/motd, and
check for mail. None of the messages are printed if the
file $HOME/.hushlogin exists. The name of the command
interpreter is set to - (dash), followed by the last com-
ponent of the interpreter's path name, for example, -sh.

Any system wide variables you want all 'users' to have should be placed in the /etc/profile and/or /etc/.login. Any 'user' specific (all Oracle DBA) should be set up on the individual profile or login in the home directory.

Oops, deleting my reply since thehoghunter beat me to it, and quite a good reply!

I've tried putting the entries in /etc/profile but when I login and use the env command to display the variables the entries aren't there.

Thanx.

Which version of Solaris? How are you logining in - console - telnet - rsh/rlogin - ssh ? What is the shell being used?

Please give an example of one of the variables attempting to be set (copy from the /etc/profile as it may just be a typo)

env will show all variables that have been enabled for exporting with the export command. If a variable has not been flagged for export, it will not be shown by env, but you can see it with "set".

Code as follows from /etc/profiles

#ident "@(#)profile 1.17 95/03/28 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */

# The profile that all logins get before using their own .profile.

trap "" 2 3
export LOGNAME PATH

if [ "$TERM" = "" ]
then
if /bin/i386
then
TERM=AT386
else
TERM=sun
fi
export TERM
fi

# Login and -su shells get /etc/profile services.
# -rsh is given its environment in its .profile.

case "$0" in
-sh | -ksh | -jsh)

if [ ! -f .hushlogin ]
then
/usr/sbin/quota
# Allow the user to break the Message-Of-The-Day only.
trap "trap '' 2" 2
/bin/cat -s /etc/motd
trap "" 2

/bin/mail -E
case $? in
0)
echo "You have new mail."
;;
2)
echo "You have mail."
;;
esac
fi
esac

umask 022
trap 2 3
CLASSPATH=/ianf
export CLASSPATH

I'm using Solaris 2.6

I'm loging in on telnet and console.


Thanx.