topic Re: customising users in Operating System - HP-UX

customising users

Carine Parmentier — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:03:34 GMT

HP-UX 11.11
Adding a new prompt into the .profile does not change when using telnet, login and su - cmd's; unless I really logout/login again. This sounds weird to me. I made the change into .dtprofile.
any help
thanks
Carine

Re: customising users

Govinda_1 — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:07:38 GMT

HI,

can u tell me which file u made changes ??

can u paste the entries u made in the files here..

Regards
Govind.

Re: customising users

Pete Randall — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:16:21 GMT

Carine,

The .dtprofile would be read when a new CDE window (dtterm, hpterm, whatever) is opened. You can force the effect to happen immediately by sourcing the .dtprofile with ". .dtprofile" at the command prompt (note the space in between the dots).

Pete

Re: customising users

Pete Randall — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:19:17 GMT

I'll take part of that previous statement back: the .dtprofile is only read when logging into CDE, not whenever a window is opened.

Pete

Re: customising users

Carine Parmentier — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 03:29:52 GMT

The .dtprofile is not the problem, as the PS1 variable which I changed into the .profile is executed when you really log off/on again; but it is not executed when you do a telnet, login, su - cmd.
What did I change ?
1. remove the # in DTSOURCEPROFILE=true in .dtprofile
2. add a new prompt in .profile
3. sourced the .dtprofile and .profile or log off
4. When originally loggin on as that user, no problem - when loggin on via telnet, login or su - cmd, it recognise there is another prompt, but it is not doing the variable substitution within my PS1 variable.
any suggestions ?