Migrating from Unix to Linux

amazingsol · 10-05-2006, 06:38 PM

I'm an old SCO Unix user whose migrating to Red Hat Linux Enterprise. I'm trying to find out where commands are stored that are executed when a user logs in. In SCO it is in the .profile file in the user's home directory but I can't find it in Linux. I'm logging in in text mode, not GUI.
Thanks!

unSpawn · 10-05-2006, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ^H^H^H in man bash

When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-
active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com-
mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading
that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile,
in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that
exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the
shell is started to inhibit this behavior.

When a login shell exits, bash reads and executes commands from the
file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.

Bash being the default shell.

I'm an old SCO Unix user whose migrating to Red Hat Linux Enterprise.
Please note we have an RH and Enterprise forum as well.

amazingsol · 10-06-2006, 12:06 PM

Thanks, I'll see if I can find any of these files. If not, I'll create my own.