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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Sytstem wide .login on RT running AIX 2.2.1
Summary: csh doesn't support it explicitly
Keywords: use /etc/environment for variables
Message-ID: <7855@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 Dec 89 01:24:18 GMT
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Reply-To: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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In article <1194@awdprime.UUCP>
@cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron wrote:
>In article <13530@s.ms.uky.edu>, pjl@ms.uky.edu (Paul Linton) writes:
>>    Every account on the RT here runs /bin/csh by default.  My problem
>> is that they do not execute /etc/profile upon login.

>[T]ry the /etc/environment file
>which is what I use to set global environment variables (I use ksh
>though). The "Managing the AIX Operating System Manual" states:
>
>        Before any user logs in to the system, the init process (the
>main process starting the system) reads the file /etc/environment. The
>init process passes variable assignments made in the /etc/environment
>to each process it creates (its child processes). These variables
>automatically become part of the list of exported shell variables.
>
>The manual doesn't mention that /etc/profile is not executed when csh
>is the default shell though...

The /etc/profile file is used by the Bourne shell and the Korn
shell, and is mentioned in their manual entries.  It is not used
by the C shell, and so is not mentioned in the csh manual entry.

/etc/environment does set up environment variables for use by
whatever shell is forked.  If you want to execute commands by
default, put them into a file called `/etc/login.dflt' or some such
and put the line

source /etc/login.dflt

at the beginning of each user's .login file.  Remember that .cshrc is
interpreted before .login.

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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