profile(4)                FILE FORMATS                 profile(4)



NAME
     profile - setting up an environment at login time

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/profile
     $HOME/.profile

DESCRIPTION
     All users who have the shell, sh(1), as their login  command
     have  the  commands in these files executed as part of their
     login sequence.  /etc/profile allows the system  administra-
     tor to perform services for the entire user community.  Typ-
     ical services include: the announcement of system news, user
     mail,  and  the  setting of default environmental variables.
     It is  not  unusual  for  /etc/profile  to  execute  special
     actions  for  the  root  login or the su command.  Computers
     running outside the U.S. Eastern time zone should  have  the
     line
          . /etc/TIMEZONE
     included early in /etc/profile [see timezone(4)].  The  file
     $HOME/.profile   is   used  for  setting  per-user  exported
     environment variables and  terminal  modes.   The  following
     example is typical (except for the comments):

          # Make some environment variables global
          export MAIL PATH TERM
          # Set file creation mask
          umask 022
          # Tell me when new mail comes in
          MAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
          # Add my /usr/usr/bin directory to the shell search sequence
          PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
          # Set terminal type
          TERM=$ {L0:-u/n/k/n/o/w/n} # gnar.invalid
          while :
          do
               if [ -f ${TERMINFO:-/usr/share/lib/terminfo}/?/$TERM ]
               then break
               elif [ -f /usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/$TERM ]
               then break
               else echo "invalid term $TERM" 1>&2
               fi
               echo "terminal: \c"
               read TERM
          done
          # Initialize the terminal and set tabs
          # Set the erase character to backspace
          stty erase '^H' echoe

FILES
     /etc/TIMEZONE    timezone environment
     $HOME/.profile   user-specific environment



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profile(4)                FILE FORMATS                 profile(4)



     /etc/profile1

SEE ALSO
     env(1), login(1), mail(1), sh(1), stty(1), su(1M), tput(1)
     terminfo(4), timezone(4), environ(5), term(5) in the  System
     Administrator's Reference Manual
     User's Guide

NOTES
     Care must be taken  in  providing  system-wide  services  in
     /etc/profile.   Personal .profile files are better for serv-
     ing all but the most global needs.











































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