need some help in sh

[jayachandran.g]

hi friends

i'm little bit confused with the shell starting files

for a example i'm using sh as my shell in this in which file i will keep the shell variables like

stty erase etc
TERM=vt100

for all my telnet clients too
can you just help in this
thank you

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi.

the $HOME/.profile

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[DCE]

There are several places to put shell settings.

System wide settings you wish to apply to all users logging on to the system should go in /etc/profile

customized settings for the individual users should be placed in the indiviuals .profile file in their home directory



Dave

[Gopi Sekar]

if you want these settings to be specific to a user then set it in $HOME/.profile where $HOME refers to the home directory of the user

if you want this to affect all the users logging in to the system (including root) then set it in /etc/profile which is a global script file which gets executed every time a user logs in

[jayachandran.g]

Hi Gopi, Robert,

I think my way of quetioning is wrong for all other shells like bash csh r ksh have thier own start up scripts like

bshrc,cshrc, and kshrc like that what is for sh.

if i put it on $HOME/.profile or /etc/profile it is comman for all shells i want somw thing specific ofr this sh shell only.

and "stty erase" command i think it wont work if we put it on profile files

i may be wrong... you people may have good reason for telling like this please explain me..

thank you

[Gopi Sekar]

for bash shell i believe it is /etc/bashrc and $HOME/.bash_profile

[DCE]

The $HOME/.profile sets the environment for just the specific user, and does not affect any other users on the system.



Dave

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

~/.profile works for sh and ksh.

~/.login and ~/.cshrc work for the csh.

[jayachandran.g]

Hai

i some problem in english too it may be so DCE and Gopi may not be able to get my question.

Gopi and DCE you people are correct but i know for bash shell and env through profile files...

but my question is for sh

thank you Patrik i was having doubt abt ksh also you have cleared all


thaks a lot

bye bye

[jayachandran.g]

it is really good