Re: Linux profile - a little offtopic

Kimberly,

Since .profile is of little use unless sourced, why make it executable?

Maybe I missed something here, but I've never used an executable .profile.

Jared

On Sunday 01 July 2001 11:15, Kimberly Smith wrote:
> Also, make sure the .profile is executable. It isn't by default
> usually. Also make sure the oracle account is setup to use a shell
> that the .profile actually applies to. For example, ksh (my personal
> favoriate). C shell uses the .login.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 10:20 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
> On June 30, 2001 01:30 pm, Csillag Zsolt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since I'd like to install Oracle for Linux, I need to change the
> > profile for user 'oracle'.
> >
> > I edited the .profile file located in /home/oracle folder but it
> > seems to me that this isn't the file that Linux loads at startup.
>
> Take a look at /etc/profile - this is the default system-wide user
> profile (be aware that all changes to this file will affect all
> non-root users on the system).
>
> Cheers,
> GC

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