Where's the .profile environment config for root under Bourne shell?


 
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Old 12-02-2006
Power Where's the .profile environment config for root under Bourne shell?

I don't know where the environment config file for root user is in the Bourne shell on Solaris 10?

Can you help me, or am I helpless????
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Old 12-02-2006
It is in the man page. $HOME/.profile for any given user, or /etc/profile system-wide
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Old 12-02-2006
normally it shud be under /etc/skel and called local.profile or something

just copy it to /.profile chmod 755 and edit it to your preference
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