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Old 11-20-2012
Need to navigate to HOME directory when I log in
Hi,
Currently i'm logging as a user say atgdev. When I login it takes me to directory /.
I see the home directory set as /home/atgdev/

I want that when i log in it shud directly go to my home directory i.e /home/atgdev/.

I thought .profile in /home/atgdev/ will be invoked first when i log in. So I had cd $HOME in .profile but still it didn't redirect me to home directory when i log in. Please advice.
# 2  
Old 11-20-2012
How did you see your home directory set?
The fact that /home/atgdev/ exist is not enough...
What does echo $HOME return?
What do you have when you type:
Code:
grep atgdev /etc/passwd

It of course reads a .profile in your home directory if the file exist and you are correctly set...
We dont know your OS nor how the box is configured (local /etc/passwd?, NIS?, LDAP? etc...) so difficult to say more...
# 3  
Old 11-20-2012
Quote:
echo "cd /home/atgdev/" >> /home/atgdev/.profile
# 4  
Old 11-20-2012
Multiple ways to do it, but jabalv is probably the simplest....however that's essentially the same as

Code:
 echo "cd $HOME" >> /home/atgdev/.profile

What does echo $HOME do for you?

It seems like etc/passwd or .profile are sending you directly to root folder. Can you show us your .profile??
# 5  
Old 11-20-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by phunk
Multiple ways to do it, but jabalv is probably the simplest....however that's essentially the same as

Code:
 echo "cd $HOME" >> /home/atgdev/.profile

What does echo $HOME do for you?

It seems like etc/passwd or .profile are sending you directly to root folder. Can you show us your .profile??
I think he should better use full path as adoption that environment variable not working.
# 6  
Old 11-20-2012
Yea that's why I want to see what
Code:
echo $HOME

returns. I'd also love to see his .profile and /etc/passwd files.

He said he has cd $HOME in his .profile, which leads me to believe that variable is set differently than he realizes.
# 7  
Old 11-20-2012
Thanks everyone for showing so much interest. First of all i'm not setting $HOME. It is already set and i'm not sure how. Even I was of the belief that .profile is invoked first and sets the home directory. But here it's not the case.

Code:
[atgdev@devenv1 /]$ echo $HOME
/home/atgdev
 
[atgdev@devenv1 /]$ cd /home/atgdev
 
[atgdev@devenv1 ~]$ cat .profile
export ORACLE_BASE=/orcl/app/oracle/product
export ORACLE_HOME=/orcl/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.2/db_1
export ORACLE_SID=APRT02D
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/orcl/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.2/db_1/bin
cd $HOME
 
 
[atgdev@devenv1 ~]$ grep atgdev /etc/passwd
atgdev:x:92206:9080:atgdev, DEV.APAC AD_TSS_TRD_ATGDEV_A, I441633, F, 10100601:/home/atgdev:/bin/csh

The variables that i had set in my .profile is not getting set. Some other .profile is getting called i believe which is etting things. Not sure which one. Is there a way to find out?
Code:
[atgdev@devenv1 ~]$ echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/boksm/bin:/var/cfengine/bin
[atgdev@devenv1 ~]$ echo $ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_BASE: Undefined variable.

Last edited by Gangadhar Reddy; 11-20-2012 at 09:12 PM..
 
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