[SunHELP] Sun Shell Environment

[Clayton Winter]

Brian,

You will probably need to create a shell environment.

Solaris by default has bourne and korn shells. Though bash and gcc 
should have been installed as part of a full Solaris 8 install it is not 
a big deal, try www.sunfreeware.com for some packaged binaries for bash 
gcc etc...


Here is an example of a korn shell (/bin/ksh) .profile environment. Your 
.kshrc is where you setup shortcut etc...

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ccs/bin;e
xport PATH
EDITOR=vi
MAILCHECK=6000
HOST=`/usr/ucb/hostname`
PS1='[!: $PWD]\
$HOST [root] # '; export PS1
set -o ignoreeof
ENV=$HOME/.kshrc ; export ENV

Here is an example of a korn shell ( maybe /usr/local/bin/bash) 
.bash_profile environment.

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
         . ~/.bashrc
fi

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ccs/bin
PS1="[\t \d *** \! \w ***\n\u@\h \]# "
BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
#set -o notify
#set -o vi
IGNOREEOF=10

export PATH PS1 BASH_ENV IGNOREEOF

Those are quite basic environemts, some people go mad with

There is lots of stuff out there concerning bourne korn and bash.

Regards
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Clayton Winter: Systems Administrator
Sun Certified System Administrator
Webdata: Corporate Hosting Solutions
e: clayton at webdata.com.au p: 4054 1511
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Brian Oakes wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I recently inherited some sun 8 servers. I come from the Linux world 
> where Redhat and others configured my environments for me. I have 
> noticed on Solaris8 I don?t have a lot of the things I am used to, i.e. 
> gcc etc.
> 
> A friend of mine told me I need to set up and environment on this 
> Solaris8 system. (Time for the stupid question) Does anyone have a list 
> or a place to start?
> 
> I have been trying to find a place to read up on what to do. Any 
> pointers?  I have downloaded a bunch of packages and installed them. So 
> far it really isn?t close to being the same.
> 
> TIA!
> 
> Brian
> 
> 


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