Duplicating environment in Hp-UX 11.i

[mohnkern]

We have two HP-UX 11.i boxes that we're trying to have matching user environments. We've copied /etc/profile and /etc/PATH and that seems to have gotten us 90% of the way there.

However, on one of the boxes, when we open up a terminal window the command line has full vi editing level functions, and the other, it doesn't. We can't figure out why.

Any suggestions?

[Hasan Atasoy]

hi ;
also copy user profile . it is located at ~/username/.profile


Hasan.

[mohnkern]

Would this be for each individual user?

[mohnkern]

What about for root, when there is no home directory for root?

[David Bellamy]

Yes it would be for each user. And root does have a home directory it is called /

[Pete Randall]

Even root should have a home directory specified (like /root, for example), but, if none has been specified, root's profile will be located in /.profile.


Pete

[Hasan Atasoy]

there is .profile root also.

cd ~/root
ls -al .profile

you will see it.


Hasan

[Dennis Handly]

You shouldn't be copying /etc/PATH since that depends on what's installed. Unless you have manually customized it.

[mohnkern]

the /etc/PATH is manually customized, with additional application in it.

[Patrick Wallek]

You asked a very similar question earlier this month.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1177460

[mohnkern]

Solution found by copying /etc/.profile /etc/path and .profiles from / and ~/username/.profile for each user.

[Dennis Handly]

>the /etc/PATH is manually customized, with additional application in it.

Ideally, that application should have a control script to automatically add itself to /etc/PATH.

[mohnkern]

You'd think these COTS applications would do that, but unfortunately, we've found some that don't.