Re: problem with execution on .profile

From: Arbab f Ahmed (Arbabf_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:27:26 GMT

"Andreas Schulze" <b79xan@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:c4ri7l$2lgoef$1@ID-208966.news.uni-berlin.de...
> "Abhijeet" <abhi_10dulkr@indiatimes.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:f0bf477c.0404050109.3f9bc4bc@posting.google.com...
> > Hi group,
> > I am having AIX & Solaris m/c. My default shell is ksh. As per as i
> > understand .profile shud execute everytime i open terminal using
> > dtterm(winterm). But its not happening in case of these two m/cs. I
> > have been executing it explicitly after opening terminal.
> >
> > But .profile gets executed when i telnet(rsh) on these m/cs.
> >
> > Can somebody enlighten me the reason behind this?
> > Some references or advise on good admin book are welcome.
> >
> > thanks in advance
> > abhijeet
>
> Hallo abhijeet,
>
> not sure about the Solaris thing but to use X-apps with AIX you need to
have
> a .dtprofile with an activated
> DTSOURCEPROFILE=true
> line (e.g. remove the # to uncomment). This will load your .profile. Mind
> that AIX ksh expects aliases and functions in a separate .kshrc which
again
> is activated by the ENV variable from the .profile.
> export ENV=~/.kshrc
>
> HTH,
> Andreas
>
>