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)
Discussion started by: Sanjeev G
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
profile
profile(4) File Formats profile(4)NAME
profile - setting up an environment for user at login time
SYNOPSIS
/etc/profile
$HOME/.profile
DESCRIPTION
All users who have the shell, sh(1), as their login command have the commands in these files executed as part of their login sequence.
/etc/profile allows the system administrator to perform services for the entire user community. Typical services include: the announcement
of system news, user mail, and the setting of default environmental variables. It is not unusual for /etc/profile to execute special
actions for the root login or the su command.
The file $HOME/.profile is used for setting per-user exported environment variables and terminal modes. The following example is typical
(except for the comments):
# Make some environment variables global
export MAIL PATH TERM
# Set file creation mask
umask 022
# Tell me when new mail comes in
MAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
# Add my /usr/usr/bin directory to the shell search sequence
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
# Set terminal type
TERM=${L0:-u/n/k/n/o/w/n} # gnar.invalid
while :
do
if [ -f ${TERMINFO:-/usr/share/lib/terminfo}/?/$TERM ]
then break
elif [ -f /usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/$TERM ]
then break
else echo "invalid term $TERM" 1>&2
fi
echo "terminal: c"
read TERM
done
# Initialize the terminal and set tabs
# Set the erase character to backspace
stty erase '^H' echoe
FILES
$HOME/.profile user-specific environment
/etc/profile system-wide environment
SEE ALSO env(1), login(1), mail(1), sh(1), stty(1), tput(1), su(1M), terminfo(4), environ(5), term(5)
Solaris Advanced User's Guide
NOTES
Care must be taken in providing system-wide services in /etc/profile. Personal .profile files are better for serving all but the most
global needs.
SunOS 5.10 20 Dec 1992 profile(4)