rlogin - passing my env

[Allan Pincus]

Hi,

When I telnet or rlogin to a remote machine, I lose my environment, and pickup the environment on the remote machine.

Does anyone know how to get my environment to pass across to the remote machine?

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Creae .profile file same as your local machine in the home directory of remote server.

-USA..

[Kellogg Unix Team]

One way will be to have your home-dir exported and NFS mounted by all servers. The other option is to manually propogate your initialization files (.profile, .login, etc.) to all of your servers.

HTH
...Manjeet

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Allan,

The easiest way to do this would be to have all the systems automount (now called autofs) the same home dir.
Set it up in the /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf config file.
The daemon is
/usr/lib/netsvc/fs/autofs/automount
And the file to define the mounts is
/etc/auto_master

See man automount for further details.

The sticky point may be applications...you'd have to insure that ALL applications are installed AND installed the SAME way on ALL systems or you may have trouble if APP1HOME=/path/to/dir is actually /path/to/dir2 on another system OR systemA has Java2 & systemB has Java3 & so on.

Rgds,
Jeff