[SunHELP] .Profile is not my Friend

[Michael A. Turner]

> If you are indeed using /bin/sh, have your shell changed to tcsh 
> instead (if you are using Solaris 8 or better, then tcsh is 
> included by 
> default - see /usr/bin/tcsh.)
> 
> After your user entry in /etc/passwd is changed to reflect the use of 
> tcsh for your account, then make sure your .login file is in 
> your home 
> directory and then log in. Barring any specific path issues in your 
> login, everything should then work as you were used to.
> 
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	You are exactly right in the fact that my old shell was tcsh.
Switching to that shell makes things work it would seem. Thing is, I don't
want to switch over to that shell. I want to make sh work and I want to
figure out how to write a .profile file. Not to start an editor war, but I
never learned vi as well as I should have until recently. I knew I should as
it comes with all *nix and can save your butt, but I was a Pico guy. Well
now a couple of disasters down the road later and I have finally started to
feel my way around vi. I am starting to look at this as the same situation.
I should learn to make a .profile file because a lot of the systems I am
asked to look at are running just an sh shell and changing that may be to
hard.


Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org