10-25-2002
. ./.profile
I have a similar problem, mine is AIX w/ksh.
I want to be able to 'restart' my login without have to type 'login' to exit and relogin completely to get my .profile to be invoked again.
If I typed, from my $HOME directory, ". ./.profile" (without the quotes of course), the environment variables I set all take effect. However, if I put this command ". ./.profile" in a file call "restart". It doesn't seem to do anything...I am still pointing to the database I first logged in with and the old variables still exist...Here's my restart script..simple enuff:
restart:
#!/bin/ksh
. ./.profile
.profile:
. $HOME/.promptuser
.promptuser:
export variable1...
export variable2...
etc.
Please advise how I can get the "restart" script to export new sets of variables again..right now, it executes and I get the prompt again to pick a database, but regardless of what choice I pick, it still points me back to whatever choice I picked when I first logged in to the server.
Okay, so I am too lazy to type . ./.profile or . $HOME/.profile from the $HOME directory... and want to be able to switch databases on the fly from anywhere that's why I am asking...thanx. It works but it doesn't work.
Gianni
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
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)