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Operating Systems AIX rerun .profile after changing variable Post 302231463 by sboxtops on Tuesday 2nd of September 2008 10:50:00 AM
Old 09-02-2008
rerun .profile after changing variable

I changed a $variable in my .profile (AIX unix). I know I could exit out and logon onto unix again, but how do I rerun the .profile at the command line?
 

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PSI(1)								   User Commands							    PSI(1)

NAME
Psi - jabber client SYNOPSIS
psi [--profile=PROFILE] [--remote|--choose-profile] DESCRIPTION
[--status=STATUS [--status-message=MSG]] [--uri=URI] Psi - The Cross-Platform Jabber/XMPP Client For Power Users OPTIONS
--choose-profile Display Choose Profile dialog on startup. Cannot be used together with --remote. -h, --help Show this help message and exit. --profile=PROFILE Activate program instance running specified profile. Otherwise, open new instance using this profile (unless used together with --remote). --remote Force remote-control mode. If there is no running instance, or --profile was specified but there is no instance using it, exit with- out doing anything. Cannot be used with --choose-profile. --status=STATUS Set status. STATUS must be one of `online', `chat', `away', `xa', `dnd', `offline'. --status-message=MSG Set status message. Must be used together with --status. --uri=URI Open XMPP URI. (e.g. xmpp:someone@example.org?chat) For security reasons, this must be the last option. -v, --version Show version information and exit. SEE ALSO
Go to <http://psi-im.org/> for more information about Psi. Psi 0.14 January 2012 PSI(1)
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