Re: newgrp help

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 10/29/04

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    From the man page:
    "When you run the command, the system places you in a new shell..."

    So it may run .profile and the like again. 

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Simon Green
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> From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Shawn Bierman
> Sent: 28 October 2004 19:37
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: newgrp help
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to understand the newgrp command.
>
> On certain systems here I can issue the following command:
> newgrp - somegroup
>
> And right after that I get a bit of text:
>
> "Environment 'prod' set."
>
> I know the script that generates that message but I cannot figure how
> it gets called by issuing the newgrp command.  Can someone shed some
> light on this for me?
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