[SunHELP] $DISPLAY for root

Will Mc Donald sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 17 09:33:47 CDT 2001


There's a space after the dot which is sort of shorthand for source (in some
shells at least).

Today's lesson for linux newbies (i.e. me) don't try sourcing rc.sysinit,
bad things happen. :)

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Ricker" <bricker at wellinx.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 3:17 PM
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] $DISPLAY for root


> You do not execute a .profile, you use the command 'source'. Read up on
> man source.
>
> Ben Ricker





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