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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users set path so all new users can execute the command in /bin/mycommands Post 74843 by blowtorch on Monday 13th of June 2005 10:30:55 PM
Old 06-13-2005
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Originally Posted by sravusa
Do I change the /etc/profile ?
Thanks
That's the way to do it. The /etc/profile is sourced whenever any user logs in with sh/ksh/bash. However, if you have any users using csh/tcsh, you would have to set this path in either one of /etc/csh.cshrc or /etc/csh.login (though /etc/csh.cshrc would be sourced even on using 'su').
 

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suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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