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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers executing .profile Post 31768 by RTM on Wednesday 13th of November 2002 09:44:11 AM
Old 11-13-2002
Not sure if AIX has this but on Solaris there is a .dtprofile which has only one real use - to set a DTSOURCEPROFILE variable to false or true - if false (the default), the .profile is not sourced. If true, then the profile is sourced. The .dtprofile is in each users home directory (normally copied when first starting CDE the first time).

The following link should explain it for AIX.AIX OS - modifying desktop profiles

Last edited by RTM; 11-13-2002 at 11:28 AM..
 

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UPDATE-PROFILE-CACHE(1) 				      General Commands Manual					   UPDATE-PROFILE-CACHE(1)

NAME
update-profile-cache - (re)generate profile assignment cache SYNOPSIS
update-profile-cache DESCRIPTION
Running this script (re)generates the cache of profile assignments used by desktop-profiles. By default this script is run automatically once a day by a cron script. NOTE: No cache of assignments will be generated in cases where cache use isn't supported by desktop-profiles (at the moment caching pro- file assingments is only supported in the simple case when no group or command requirements are used for activation of profiles, i.e. when we have a static machine-wide profile assignment). FILES
/etc/desktop-profiles/*.listing - Files containing the metadata about installed profiles /etc/default/desktop-profiles - File containing default settings for this script AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Bart Cornelis <cobaco@skolelinux.no>. SEE ALSO
desktop-profiles(7), profiles-manager(1), list-desktop-profiles(1) desktop-profiles December 13, 2006 UPDATE-PROFILE-CACHE(1)
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