profile

[Manuales]

what are main variables for being located into .profile file?

thanks.

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Manuales,

It looks like it's totally up to your needs:

".profile files are useful for setting various environment parameters, setting terminal modes, or overriding some or all of the results of executing /etc/profile"

For more info and example of file please take a look at:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/profile.4.html

Regards,

Jaime.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

For our Oracle Environments, we consider the following important:

PATH
TMP
TMPDIR
ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
DISPLAY

hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Pete Randall]

The .profile file should contain only things that need to be set differently for indiviual users. This should be very little if any.

Everything else should go into /etc/profile so that you have a common base.


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Manuales:

You can populate your '.profile' with whatever variables are appropriate to you environment.

However, instead of adding them directly therein, I prefer to source a separate file containing them. In that way, _any_ script that needs the custom environmental variables can also source (read) the file _without_ having to source the '.profile'. This eliminates having to conditionally exclude the 'stty' handling for non-interactive uses.

As the end of the profile, simply do:

. ${HOME}/myenv

That is a dot ("." followd by a whitespace (space or tab), followed by the name of the file that contains the environmental variables you want to declare.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jov]

Hi

Doe a man on 'ksh', it should details most if not all the possible evironment variables for .profile.

Keep in mind if you're using .profile for Bourne shell, it'll be a subset of it.


Jov