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From: andrew@riddle.UUCP (Andrew Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rsh environment
Keywords: no /etc/profile sourced?
Message-ID: <955@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 88 10:15:48 GMT
References: <1276@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrew@riddle.UUCP (Andrew Beattie)
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
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In article <1276@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP> ckl@uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel) writes:
>Is there any way to alter the default environment setting used when
>rsh (the bsd remote shell) executes commands?
>
>our rsh (bull sps9 with spix os) sets up an default environment
>
>	HOME=				<from passwd>
>	LOGNAME=			<from passwd>
>	PATH=.:/bin:/usr/bin		<hardwired>
>	SHELL=/bin/sh			<surprisingly not from passwd>
>	TERM=				<always empty>
>
>any hints?

DID YOU BSD PEOPLE HERE THAT ???

What Christoph is trying to say is that we want an /etc/rshrc and $HOME/.rshrc
which is run every time we grab a remote shell so that we can set up our 
environment exactly as we want it.  On our Xenix boxes with Excelan the 
remote shell has $SHELL set up from passwd so the fix is to use csh and 
set up the environment in $HOME/.cshrc (I think that is the right file,
I would rather suffer the inconvenience of setting up my environment each 
time than have to use csh)