Oh Donna, you're so cute.  Thinking I might try to change the /etc/profile
file (thanks for looking over my/our shoulders, though)...hell, I just now
figured out how to cat the damn thing, and believe you me, ain't noth'n I
saw in there that li'l 'ol me wants to change!

:-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna Garverick [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:01 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re:
>
> Ken Hirsch wrote:
>
> > With a "-L" flag, the shell will read commands from "/etc/profile".  It
> will
> > also read a file ".profile" in your home directory if it exists.
> >
> > (I do a setvar for HOME, TERM, and TZ in my logon UDC.)
>
> since we seem have more folks venturing into posix-land.....it's probably
> worthwhile to point out that you *don't* want to change /etc/profile.
> that file
> 'belongs' to hp -- that is, when you do an mpe update (theoretically
> thinking
> that there will be more mpe updates to do....), this file will be
> replaced.
>
> at the bottom of /etc/profile, you should see the following....
>
> # (new) if /etc/profile.local exists then execute it.  This file should
> # only contain site specific profile changes.
> if [ -r /etc/profile.local ] ; then
>    . /etc/profile.local
> fi
>
> in mpe-speak -- if finfo('/etc/profile.local','exists') xeq
> /etc/profile.local    :-)
>
> in other words --make your customizations in /etc/profile.local.  an watch
> your
> permissions too!  i have both profile files set to 755 (that might be
> generous.....)           - d
>
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