What is the newest release of /etc/profile ?

[Jdamian]

The release of my /etc/profile is 74.2.

Is there any newer release ?

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

Not sure, but looking at the systems in the UKRC it would appear for 10.20 & 11.0 74.2 is the latest I can find ... on hpux 11.11 I see it changes to B.11.11_LR ??? if I can find any more details I'll post again.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

As far as I know. this hasn't changed in ages...

Of course, that doesn't mean that you can't pep it up yourself... there's some good examples here:

ftp://contrib:9unsupp8@hprc.external.hp.com/sysadmin/profiles

HTH

Duncan

[Darrell Allen]

Hi,

what /etc/profile on my 11.0 system with current patches shows:

/etc/profile:
$Revision: 74.2 $

Of course what I run isn't the same as was delivered. Anyway, that's what it says.

Darrell

[Bill Hassell]

As mentioned, /etc/profile (and .profile as well as /etc/csh.login and .cshrc) have not changed significantly in years. There are dozens of features that should be incorporated into every /etc/profile, from the mandatory umask setting to bypassing interactive commands when running a batch or cron job.

Some examples of how to do this are found at the hprc FTP site mentioned previously by Duncan. Note that the original versions of profiles are located in the reference directory structure at:

/usr/newconfig

in case you need to get back to the originals.

[Andrew Edenburn]

There is a new release running on my systems. it is 74.3 however I do not know where I got it. sorry about that.