Ok I've lost myself and hit a brick wall.
What I am trying to do is avoid the login screen when the machine is turned on. So no login screen is needed unless you turn the machine on and log out to login and change users. But as I said before I've hit a brick wall. I got not an idea of what I... (4 Replies)
Hello again !
Thanks for response of my first question. there is my second quesiton why i have local.profile instead of .profile file ?
my all files in pwd shoes local. before any file.
is anybody can tell me about that ?
Thanks
Abid Malik (5 Replies)
Hey all,
I'm trying to configure a system so when it reboots it'll automatically log as a user I have selected. I've never done this nor' as I to sure on how to. This is teh best I have found on teh web and well I've changed a few things. but does anyone who has done this know if it'll work... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I got this question which tells me to customize my login script. Some people in the forums suggested to modify the .profile file in my home directory. I did so, but none of my customizations show up when I open the terminal after.
So, I tried to modify other files in my home directory,... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
We have some HP unix servers and sometimes we logon there thru a dedicated Windows server that has Reflection X on it in case we need X. In this case we always need to export DISPLAY=winservername:0.0
I want to automate this thing in .profile file. If e.g. $TERM = hpterm (thru... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
How do you get around SFTP not having the 'cat' command to set up scripts to run cron jobs for passwords?
I am use to the FTP allowing that, but we are converting to SFTP and need to be able to still run the same scripts in off hrs. Is there a way to still cat the password at the prompt... (14 Replies)
The .profile file should be read when the user logs in. So, there should be no need to execute .profile file again in a cron job (since the cron job is run after the user logs in). Doesn't the cron require login from the user. Then, from where does the cron execute? Please help!! (1 Reply)
Hi Experts,
On one of hp-ux box I have writen the code to disable the direct login for some of the users in /etc/profile file.
However when logging into terminal seems /etc/profile is not executed and users are still able to directly login into the terminal.
Default shell for user is... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I login to Linux and Solaris server using my personal user account "ms1104" .
I have several aliases set in my profile.
Later i need to switch to another user account i.e. "wlsuser" and below is the command i use
sudo -u wlsuser -s -H
i do not have authority to modify the... (1 Reply)
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wtmpx
utmpx(4) File Formats utmpx(4)NAME
utmpx, wtmpx - utmpx and wtmpx database entry formats
SYNOPSIS
#include <utmpx.h>
/var/adm/utmpx
/var/adm/wtmpx
DESCRIPTION
The utmpx and wtmpx files are extended database files that have superseded the obsolete utmp and wtmp database files.
The utmpx database contains user access and accounting information for commands such as who(1), write(1), and login(1). The wtmpx database
contains the history of user access and accounting information for the utmpx database.
USAGE
Applications should not access these databases directly, but should use the functions described on the getutxent(3C) manual page to inter-
act with the utmpx and wtmpx databases to ensure that they are maintained consistently.
FILES
/var/adm/utmpx user access and adminstration information
/var/adm/wtmpx history of user access and adminstrative information
SEE ALSO getutxent(3C), wait(3C)wait.h(3HEAD)SunOS 5.10 22 Feb 1999 utmpx(4)