Korn shell

[Rene_17]

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 !

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

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

[RAC_1]

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.

[Stefan Farrelly]

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

[Mark Grant]

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 "

[Umapathy S]

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

[Bhuvaneswari Selvaraj]

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?

[Rene_17]

# 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 !

[Mark Grant]

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

[Rene_17]

that??s it !!!

[Umapathy S]

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

HTH,
Umapathy

[Rene_17]

that??s it !!!
Error myself !

[Rene_17]

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

[Mark Grant]

Could you confirm you are doing

export PS1

not

export ps1

[Rene_17]

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

[Mark Grant]

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

[Rene_17]

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 ?

[Rene_17]

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 ?

[Mark Grant]

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.

[Rene_17]

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

[Mark Grant]

Exceed will not source /etc/profile or .profile. You willl nedd to edit .dtprofile. Have a look at S Umpathy's post above!! This will make Exceed surce the two files.

Alternatively, just to check everything is OK, run
"xterm -ls" to get a log in shell that does source the two files, or even simpler, just run su - yourlogin. But, you will need to edit .dtprofile

[Pete Randall]

Rene,

I'll repeat:

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


Pete

[Rene_17]

It??s very interresting, because I add the two scripts to .dtprofile adn after that I couldn??t log in to the system.
I have said before that the last word of the script is "logout" !

The scripts works now, but now I have the loout problem !

[Pete Randall]

Rene,

So the last line in /etc/profile is "logout"? Maybe you could post (or attach) your /etc/profile, or explaing how you're expecting for this to work? With the "logout" line, I would expect that users would be automatically launching an application (what application?) at login time and logging directly out when they exit that application.

Can you supply more details?


Pete

[Rene_17]

The scripts works now !
Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The logout was invoked by the script .profile
see: set -u
trap echo 'logout root'