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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Creating a .profile, displaying system variables, and creating an alias Post 302788703 by ravisingh on Tuesday 2nd of April 2013 11:13:16 AM
Old 04-02-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jagst3r21
A couple questions:

1. My teacher wants me to print a listing of the profile. Would I just do "touch .profile" and then append (using ">>") the commands to the file, then print it?

2. I am not sure if my alias is correct. Not sure how to find the exact location of the passwd file
I 1st take your 2nd question.

Code:
grep "$LOGNAME" /etc/passwd

Your teacher wants to get your username from the passwd file. LOGNAME variable contains your username.

To take your 1st question. It seems she wants you to print that file. So, use
Code:
pr -t .profile

Also it may happen that she only wants to display the contents of the profile file. So, use
Code:
cat .profile

 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

registration_profile

registration_profile(4) 												   registration_profile(4)

NAME

       registration_profile - template for Basic Registration information

SYNOPSIS

       registration.profile

       The registration profile is a template for the information provided for Basic Registration. The information in this template is consumed by
       the sconadm(1M) utility. sconadm is the command-line alternative to the Basic Registration GUI.

       An example of the registration profile template is provided in /var/lib/breg/data/RegistrationProfile.properties. This  file  is  owned	by
       root, with read-only permissions. As root, you can copy the file to a location of your choosing and edit the file.

       The registration profile template contains the following properties:

       userName=
       password=
       hostName=
       subscriptionKey=
       portalEnabled=
       proxyHostName=
       proxyPort=
       proxyUserName=
       proxyPassword=

       Values  are not required for every property. The filling in or leaving blank a property depends on the task you intend to perform. Possible
       tasks are registering a new system, reregistering a system, and establishing a proxy. See sconadm(1M) for examples.

       The properties defined for a registration template are as follows:

       userName

	   Corresponds to Sun Online Account user name.

       password

	   Corresponds to Sun Online Account password.

       hostName

	   Portal Common Name (defaults to Unix host name, if not provided).

       subscriptionKey

	   Enable access to all updates by providing your Sun Subscription Key for entitlement.

       portalEnabled

	   If true, enable local client to be managed at the Sun-hosted Update Connection Service. If false, disable local client to be managed at
	   the Sun-hosted Update Connection Service.

       proxyHostName

	   Your HTTP web proxy host name.

       proxyPort

	   Your HTTP web proxy port number.

       proxyUserName

	   Your HTTP web proxy user name.

       proxyPassword

	   Your HTTP web proxy password.

       Example 1: Sample Registration Profile

       Below are the contents of a sample registration profile. Such a profile might be used to specify a proxy server with authentication.

       userName=
       password=
       hostName=
       subscriptionKey=
       portalEnabled=
       proxyHostName=webcache.mycompany.com
       proxyPort=8080
       proxyUserName=myCompanyProxyUserName
       proxyPassword=myCompanyProxyPassword

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbreg			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Stable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       sconadm(1M), attributes(5)

								    20 Sep 2005 					   registration_profile(4)
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