Reloading "profile" without rebooting?

ringding · 06-08-2006, 12:35 PM

My 2 questions are:

1) How can I reload the "profile" (/etc/profile) without rebooting the system?

I had to hard code some environment variables and I need to reload the profile in order to take effect...but I don't neccessarily want to reboot to do it?

2) I want to start VNC server on boot...so I was told to enter the same command to start it from the terminal (vncserver :60 -geometry 1024x768) and put it into the "rc.local" file...which I did and it does not seem to work? Can I put that same command into the "profile" instead?

Thanks

bathory · 06-08-2006, 12:48 PM

1. You can either logout and login again, or run:

Code:

source /etc/profile

2. you were told correctly about putting the command in rc.local, but you have to include the whole path to the command, i.e

Code:

/path/to/vncserver :60 -geometry 1024x768

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ringding · 06-08-2006, 12:59 PM

Awsome...thank you very much!!!!