Customizing System-Wide and User Login Environments

Defaults for system-wide variables, such as time-zone setting, terminal type, search path, and mail and news notification, can be set in /etc/profile for Korn and POSIX shell users and in /etc/csh.login for C shell users.

User login scripts can be used to override the system defaults. When HP SMH adds a user, default user login scripts are copied to the user’s home directory. For Korn and POSIX shell users /etc/skel/.profile is copied to the home directory as .profile. For C shell users, /etc/skel/.login and /etc/skel/.cshrc are copied to the home directory as .login and .cshrc. Refer to the Shells: User’s Guide and the Technical Addendum to the Shells: User’s Guide for information on customizing user login scripts.

	NOTE: Do a full backup once you have initially set up and customized your system. This allows you to reconstruct your system — kernel, system files, file system structure, user structures, and your customized files — if you need to. Use HP-UX commands to perform the backup, as described in the HP-UX System Administrator’s Guide: Routine Tasks.