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Old 08-08-2006
Environment variables in 'rsh'
HI,
From a Windows XP machine I am doing an 'rsh' to a AIX system,I have updated .rhosts of AIX system with the remote system name and I could able to do a remote shell,but when i do the 'rsh' i am not getting the environment variables which is already set for the user in th AIX system in my rsh session.

how can i get it?

Regards,
Sam
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Old 08-08-2006
rsh does not execute your .profile make sure you invoke from the $HOME . ./.profile
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HI,
From a Windows XP machine I am doing an 'rsh' to a AIX system,I have updated .rhosts of AIX system with the remote system name and I could able to do a remote shell,but when i do the 'rsh' i am not getting the environment variables which is already set for the user in th AIX system in my rsh session.

how can i get it?

Regards,
Sam
# 3  
Old 08-09-2006
Hi,
I got the answer.......if you set those environment variables in your /etc/environment,then you will get it.

Regards,
Sam
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