problem with execution on .profile

[Abhijeet]

Hi group,
I am having AIX & Solaris m/c. My default shell is ksh. As per as i
understand .profile shud execute everytime i open terminal using
dtterm(winterm). But its not happening in case of these two m/cs. I
have been executing it explicitly after opening terminal.

But .profile gets executed when i telnet(rsh) on these m/cs.

Can somebody enlighten me the reason behind this?
Some references or advise on good admin book are welcome.

thanks in advance
abhijeet

[Andreas Schulze]

"Abhijeet" <abhi_10dulkr@indiatimes.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:f0bf477c.0404050109.3f9bc4bc@posting.google.c om...

> Hi group,
> I am having AIX & Solaris m/c. My default shell is ksh. As per as i
> understand .profile shud execute everytime i open terminal using
> dtterm(winterm). But its not happening in case of these two m/cs. I
> have been executing it explicitly after opening terminal.
>
> But .profile gets executed when i telnet(rsh) on these m/cs.
>
> Can somebody enlighten me the reason behind this?
> Some references or advise on good admin book are welcome.
>
> thanks in advance
> abhijeet

Hallo abhijeet,

not sure about the Solaris thing but to use X-apps with AIX you need to have
a .dtprofile with an activated
DTSOURCEPROFILE=true
line (e.g. remove the # to uncomment). This will load your .profile. Mind
that AIX ksh expects aliases and functions in a separate .kshrc which again
is activated by the ENV variable from the .profile.
export ENV=~/.kshrc

HTH,
Andreas

[Jeff Schwab]

Abhijeet wrote:

> Hi group,
> I am having AIX & Solaris m/c. My default shell is ksh. As per as i
> understand .profile shud execute everytime i open terminal using
> dtterm(winterm). But its not happening in case of these two m/cs. I
> have been executing it explicitly after opening terminal.
>
> But .profile gets executed when i telnet(rsh) on these m/cs.
>
> Can somebody enlighten me the reason behind this?
> Some references or advise on good admin book are welcome.
>
> thanks in advance
> abhijeet

The ".profile" is read only by login shells. When you rsh, you're
creating a login shell; when you open a terminal in an existing session,
you create a non-login shell. Keep "one-time" stuff, e.g. the setting
of exported environment variables, in .profile. Move per-shell stuff,
e.g. alias definitions, to .kshrc.

[Bill]

[email]abhi_10dulkr@indiatimes.com[/email] (Abhijeet) wrote in message news:<f0bf477c.0404050109.3f9bc4bc@posting.google. com>...

> Hi group,
> I am having AIX & Solaris m/c. My default shell is ksh. As per as i
> understand .profile shud execute everytime i open terminal using
> dtterm(winterm). But its not happening in case of these two m/cs. I
> have been executing it explicitly after opening terminal.
>
> But .profile gets executed when i telnet(rsh) on these m/cs.
>
> Can somebody enlighten me the reason behind this?
> Some references or advise on good admin book are welcome.
>
> thanks in advance
> abhijeet

Perhaps you should look into using ~/.dtprofile ?

BV

[Steve Nottingham]

[email]abhi_10dulkr@indiatimes.com[/email] (Abhijeet) wrote in message news:<f0bf477c.0404050109.3f9bc4bc@posting.google. com>...

> Hi group,
> I am having AIX & Solaris m/c. My default shell is ksh. As per as i
> understand .profile shud execute everytime i open terminal using
> dtterm(winterm). But its not happening in case of these two m/cs. I
> have been executing it explicitly after opening terminal.
>
> But .profile gets executed when i telnet(rsh) on these m/cs.

Remove the hash "#" in the line:
# DTSOURCEPROFILE=true

from the file: .dtprofile in your home directory.

Steve

[Abhijeet]

Thank you guys for your responses,
its working fine now.
regards
abhijeet

[email]steve@wakefieldrfc.freeserve.co.uk[/email] (Steve Nottingham) wrote in message news:<42862645.0404050706.193f7d87@posting.google. com>...

> [email]abhi_10dulkr@indiatimes.com[/email] (Abhijeet) wrote in message news:<f0bf477c.0404050109.3f9bc4bc@posting.google. com>...

> > Hi group,
> > I am having AIX & Solaris m/c. My default shell is ksh. As per as i
> > understand .profile shud execute everytime i open terminal using
> > dtterm(winterm). But its not happening in case of these two m/cs. I
> > have been executing it explicitly after opening terminal.
> >
> > But .profile gets executed when i telnet(rsh) on these m/cs.

>
>
> Remove the hash "#" in the line:
> # DTSOURCEPROFILE=true
>
> from the file: .dtprofile in your home directory.
>
> Steve

[Arbab f Ahmed]

"Andreas Schulze" <b79xan@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:c4ri7l$2lgoef$1@ID-208966.news.uni-berlin.de...

> "Abhijeet" <abhi_10dulkr@indiatimes.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:f0bf477c.0404050109.3f9bc4bc@posting.google.c om...

> > Hi group,
> > I am having AIX & Solaris m/c. My default shell is ksh. As per as i
> > understand .profile shud execute everytime i open terminal using
> > dtterm(winterm). But its not happening in case of these two m/cs. I
> > have been executing it explicitly after opening terminal.
> >
> > But .profile gets executed when i telnet(rsh) on these m/cs.
> >
> > Can somebody enlighten me the reason behind this?
> > Some references or advise on good admin book are welcome.
> >
> > thanks in advance
> > abhijeet

>
> Hallo abhijeet,
>
> not sure about the Solaris thing but to use X-apps with AIX you need to

have

> a .dtprofile with an activated
> DTSOURCEPROFILE=true
> line (e.g. remove the # to uncomment). This will load your .profile. Mind
> that AIX ksh expects aliases and functions in a separate .kshrc which

again

> is activated by the ENV variable from the .profile.
> export ENV=~/.kshrc
>
> HTH,
> Andreas
>
>

[Dave Hinz]

On 6 Apr 2004 00:37:06 -0700, Abhijeet <abhi_10dulkr@indiatimes.com> wrote:

> Thank you guys for your responses,
> its working fine now.
> regards
> abhijeet

Glad to hear it. Maybe you could not top-post responses?