.profile not executing with CDE login

[Greg OBarr]

HP-UX 11.0
User account with posix shell.
When I telnet in, the $HOME/.profile and /etc/profile will execute. When I login from CDE prompt, they will not. Where is this controlled?

[Paul R. Dittrich · Accepted solution]

When you login to CDE it uses $HOME/.dtprofile

The default behavior is NOT to read $HOME/.profile or $HOME/.login but you can change this by un-commenting the variable DTSOURCEPROFILE down near the end.

The comments in .dtprofile are very complete and useful for regulating the use of these files across both environments.

HTH,
Paul

[Praveen Bezawada]

Hi
IN CDE environment you have to uncomment the line
DTSOURCEPROFILE=true in .dtprofile of the home directory to get the .profile executed upon login.

...BPK...

[Alex Glennie]

Try this =>
login to CDE, run from within a dtterm :

dtterm -ls &

check if your .profile has been read

if yes =>

vi $HOME/.Xdefaults
dtterm*loginShell: True
wq!

for this change to take effect you'll need to either log out of CDE or reload resources.

see man dtterm for details (same for hpterm & xterm).

[Greg OBarr]

Thanks everyone. Uncommenting the line in the .dtprofile file fixed the problem, however, I was still having trouble proving this because I was trying to test it remotely on a PC running eXceed using a dtterm. The dtterm -ls gave me the missing piece that I needed.

[Joseph C. Denman]

Another thing,

Many peoples profiles contain terminal configs. Ensure you don't do anything to affect your TERM variable.

...jcd...