1. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

I just started to use Solaris and am looking to see if anyone has any good documents for begginers on using Solaris, specifically, how to edit .profile. I know this question may be a little vague... I have done numerous searches on google with no results! Thanks for your time. Dasnutz (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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)

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I installed Red Hat 7.1. I found that .profile is not geting executed for any user. I checked the location of .profile . It is in home directory. What may be the reason. Thank you in advance!!! (3 Replies)

5. SCO

what is the difference between these two lines, if we use it in korn shell script: .profile .~/.profile (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I know from reading O Riley's Classic Shell Scripting' that the .profile file is " the shells configuration file" but I am unable to find a reference to what "..profile" means. I have searched on the net, Sams Teach Yourself Unix, Unix Visual Quickstart Guide and Linux in a Nutshell. I have... (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

What is the difference between /etc/profile and .profile? (5 Replies)

8. Infrastructure Monitoring

Hello I really wonder what's trap in etc/profile and in each user .profile. I try to google for it but I think I have no luck. Mostly hit is SNMP traps which I think it is not the same thing. I want to know ... 1. What's a "trap 2 3" means and are there any other value I can set... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to connect to sqlplus through unix. I got the command to do it. But I was getting error: ./executeSQL.ksh: sqlplus: not found Then when I googled I found that we have to include Oracle Client path in .profile file. I don't know how to do it. Also I don't have permissions to... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Masters, i have a problem with unix script, till now i just know about how to create header. i want to change file below -63395.2 72653.5 -63361.3 72696.0 ... (9 Replies)