If you haven't rebooted the system, your login shell for root is bash, and someone is still logged in, commandeer their terminal and try:
This will leave you with a bash running as root without the benefit of the actions normally run by /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile. With any luck, that would enable you to remove the disastrous changes you made to /etc/profile.
If root's login shell is not bash, check the man page for the shell root uses on your system and see if it provides a similar way to disable using /etc/profile when you login.
Good luck...
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
Following is my /etc/profile script. Everything above the asterisks executes as expected. Nothing below the asterisks executes as I would like it to. Any guidance on what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated :-)
#ident "@(#)profile 1.18 98/10/03 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */
# The... (3 Replies)
hi , i added ls -F to .profile. and i need to do ./.profile for the effect to take effect BUT i didnt and YET the next day when i came to work and log in, the changes took effect. i am on aix.
please explain..
thanks (4 Replies)
case $LOGNAME in
insp)
sl=20
sa=`who | grep $LOGNAME | wc -l`
if
then
echo "you will be disconected.allready 2 sessions opened!"
sleep 4
exit
fi
;;
*)
sl=1
sa=`who | grep $LOGNAME | wc -l`
if
then
echo "you will be disconected.allready one session opened!"
sleep 4
exit
fi (2 Replies)
I am trying to figure a way to update an environmental variable in my .profile from script.
I have a variable name CON_DIR in my .profile.
I want to be able to update this variable directly via another unix script.
Any ideas?
Thanks. (5 Replies)
Hi
I need to restrict one user to see only his directory and
one more directory how i can do this in his profile.
The OS is Red hat linux
I create a user -- tec
and group calle --tec
the user need to see
/opt/tec
and he is able to change directory to all subdiretories
under tec... (1 Reply)
Hey everyone,
I'am a little new here and experincing Unix for the first time. I was wondering if somone could help me with this question i'am a bit stuck on
Looking at the content of .profile login script
The .profile file is in your login directory. It is a startup script file... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a script, running on some outside firwall server and it's log of success or failure is maintained in a file.
I want to write a script which ftp that server and reads that file and checks the logs and if failure , I will send mail notification.
Please let meknow if I am not... (1 Reply)
Hello Gurus
Can anyone please let me know how to call .profle file in perl script
When I am calling the .profile file its giving error
Shall I create unix script which has .profile command and call perl script internally (2 Replies)
I am using MacOSX, and I decided to change the way my terminal looks. So, I created a ~/.profile file that has only the line
export PS1="\\u\ @ \\W \($0) \\$ \" ( '\u' displays the current user
'\W' displays the Working dir
and the weird numbers are colors)
It works fine when I log in... (3 Replies)
Appreciate help for the below issue.
Im using below code.....I dont want to attach the logs when I ran the perl twice...I just want to take backup with today date and generate new logs...What I need to do for the below scirpt..............
1)if logs exist it should move the logs with extention... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
script-email
SCRIPT-EMAIL(8) System Administration Commands SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)NAME
script-email - Amanda script to send email notifications
DESCRIPTION
script-email is an Amanda script implementing the Script API. It should not be run by users directly. It sends a notification email to the
addresses specified in the MAILTO property.
PROPERTIES
This section lists the properties that control script-email's functionality. See amanda-scripts(7) for information on the Script API,
script configuration.
MAILTO
List of email addresses that will receive an email on command execution. It is a multi-valued property:
property "MAILTO" "amanda@domain.com" "sysadmin@domain.com" "amandauser@domain.com"
EXAMPLE
In this example, script-email is scheduled to be run before the DLE, on the server. The unqualified email address amanda will be passed to
the email system unchanged. The script is then attached to a dumptype, which can then be specified for any DLEs which require
notification.
define script-tool pre-email {
comment "email me before this DLE is backed up"
plugin "script-email"
execute-on pre-dle-backup
execute-where server
property "mailto" "amanda"
}
define dumptype user-tar-email {
user-tar
script "pre-email"
}
SEE ALSO amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), amanda-client.conf(5), amanda-scripts(7)
The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/
AUTHORS
Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com>
Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
Amanda 3.3.1 02/21/2012 SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)