env variables
 

I login as root to solaris9
env lists out many variables.
Some of them are defined in /etc/profile
Others are not defined there.
Actually, where other variables are defined(Eg .. TZ,HZ etc..)

Simillarly for echo $PATH
displays /usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/ucb
Eventhough not defined in /etc/profile , .profile or .dtprofile

Many variables may be assigned initial (default) values by the shell itself, or in the system startup scripts.

Thanks
 

Thanks.
My intrest is to know such files and scripts

/etc/default/init set TZ and a couple other.

Not sure about the origin of this PATH, just noticed we got a different one when login through telnet.

Thanks
 

Thank u Sir.
It seems, telnet and rlogin makes no difference.
But local login makes a lot of difference.