[rescue] Various Solaris Questions

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Mike Dombrowski wrote:
> 
> Today I sat down and properly did up my first Solaris 8 machine
> with help from Fixsolaris, list archieves and other guides to setting
> up Solaris. I've still got a few questions:
> 
> 1. Is there a way to list devices? I would really like to find out what
> is in a machine even if there is no driver for it.
> 
> 2. I have a nice /etc/default/login and /etc/profile setup, I login and
> my PATH and prompt are happy. But when I su it all goes away,
> how do I fix it so that the prompt is correctly set and the PATH? I
> did set SUPATH in /etc/default/login. I'm using bash.

With bash you sometimes need to have a .bashrc in your home directory.
It can be a copy of your .profile if you like.

> 
> 3. I login with telnet and my PATH is correctly setup. But when I
> ripped out telnet and put in SSH my PATH is no longer setup after
> login, how do I fix this?

.bashrc may fix this as well. It gives proper prompt and such to
terminal sessions in X, too.

> 
> Mike
> 
> PS. What's a good place to buy new smallish (<9gb) scsi disks? I
> don't need size, just spindles and want to spend less than $75/disk.
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