topic Re: Korn shell in Operating System - HP-UX

Korn shell

Rene_17 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:57:52 GMT

The profile in /etc don??t work ?
I wanted to change the korn shell prompt but nothing happens when i changed the variable ps1 in the file /etc/profile !

Re: Korn shell

Pete Randall — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:02:52 GMT

Are you trying to change the prompt for everyone? For an individual user, just change their ~/.profile.

If you're running CDE, this is what we do to force the sourcing of profiles: in ~/.dtprofile:
DTSOURCEPROFILE=true
. /etc/profile;
. $HOME/.profile;

Pete

Re: Korn shell

RAC_1 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:03:54 GMT

The execution sequence is /etc/profile and then .profile of the user.

Check permissions on /etc/profile. ownership should be bin:bin with read access to all.

Put PS1='You stuff Here' and it will work.

/etc/profile is for ksh, sh
for csh /etc/csh.login is executed.

Re: Korn shell

Stefan Farrelly — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:04:29 GMT

works when I change it in my /etc/profile, eg;

PS1='boo> '

But it may be overridden by a users .profile in their home directory as /etc/profile is run before $HOME/.profile - so normally PS1 is set in $HOME/.profile

Re: Korn shell

Mark Grant — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:04:36 GMT

The profile in /etc certainly should work!

Are you should you are changing "PS1" and not "ps1".

Also, you need to make sure you export it. As an example, try

export PS1="[ $(whoami)@$(hostname) \$PWD ] \$SIGN "

Re: Korn shell

Umapathy S — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:05:30 GMT

Rene,
Its a normal practice to set PS1 in users profile.
If you are connecting through an X-emulator uncomment DTSOURCEPROFILE at the end of the .dtprofile.

can you post your PS1?
HTH,
Umapathy

Re: Korn shell

Bhuvaneswari Selvaraj — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:05:40 GMT

1) Did you execute the .profile by logging out and loggin in again.
2) Try giving . ./.profile in the /etc dir
cd /etc
dot space dot/dot profie
are you seeing any error message there?

Re: Korn shell

Rene_17 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:08:25 GMT

# Shell Prompt:

HOST=$(uname -n)
export HOST
PS1='$HOST:$PWD $ '

These are the entries in /etc/profile !
I want to change the prompt for everyone, so I added it in /etc/profile !

Re: Korn shell

Mark Grant — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:11:26 GMT

You haven' exported PS1. You need to export that too.

Re: Korn shell

Rene_17 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:12:46 GMT

that??s it !!!

Re: Korn shell

Umapathy S — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:13:09 GMT

Rene,
It should work. It works for me. Mark has got it. Did you export PS1?

HTH,
Umapathy

Re: Korn shell

Rene_17 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:13:29 GMT

that??s it !!!
Error myself !

Re: Korn shell

Rene_17 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:19:16 GMT

too fast: it did??n work !
I added the export ps1, but nothing happened !

Re: Korn shell

Mark Grant — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:21:19 GMT

Could you confirm you are doing

export PS1

not

export ps1

Re: Korn shell

Rene_17 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:22:44 GMT

i had entered . ./profile and then the startup script (etc/profile) works !

Re: Korn shell

Mark Grant — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:31:14 GMT

Entering . ./profile shouldn't make any difference unless you have a really weird .profile.

Could you just confirm that with your exported PS1 in /etc/profile and after logging out and logging in again, it still doesn't work

Re: Korn shell

Rene_17 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:58:02 GMT

the script is not invoked at shell startup !
When I execute the script /etc/profile manually the last line entry is "logout" ?
I don??t know why ?

Re: Korn shell

Rene_17 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:58:21 GMT

the script is not invoked at shell startup !
When I execute the script /etc/profile manually the last line entry is "logout" ?
I don??t know why ?

Re: Korn shell

Mark Grant — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:02:41 GMT

If you are using X to log in, then /etc/profile will not be executed and you should see the related answers above.

If you do "su" then it also will not be run (you need to do su -). Having "logout" as the last line of /etc/profile is weird but not completely idiotic if, for example, you want all your users to run a specific application and then logout when they have finished (you'd need to stop root having the same problem though of course).

I think you are going to have to explain a little more about how you are logging in and perhaps post your
/etc/profile and .profile files.

Re: Korn shell

Rene_17 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:11:21 GMT

I take exceed to log in to the X window system ! Then I start the shell with the X window toolbar (terminal).