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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