timcuth
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|  Profile in Solaris terminal session
Ok, this has been bugging me for years and I have never figured it out. I'll bet some of y'all can provide the answer.
I have a Solaris 10 workstation at work. When I start a new Terminal window, it knows nothing of my profile. For at least 10 years I have been working around this by entering ". ./.profile".
Is there any file I can create that will do a similar thing automatically when I open a new terminal? Like .bashrc in Ubuntu Linux?
BTW, I use ksh as my login shell.
Thanks,
Tim
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| said by timcuth  :Ok, this has been bugging me for years and I have never figured it out. I'll bet some of y'all can provide the answer. I have a Solaris 10 workstation at work. When I start a new Terminal window, it knows nothing of my profile. For at least 10 years I have been working around this by entering ". ./.profile". Is there any file I can create that will do a similar thing automatically when I open a new terminal? Like .bashrc in Ubuntu Linux? BTW, I use ksh as my login shell. Are we talking about how to do it in the standard DTWM graphical login? If so, just symlink your .profile to .dtprofile.
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timcuth
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|  said by nixen :Are we talking about how to do it in the standard DTWM graphical login? If so, just symlink your .profile to .dtprofile. Thanks. I will try that, tomorrow.
Tim
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timcuth
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|  No, that doesn't work, either. I ran some tests and found that .dtprofile is not executed in the situation I am talking about. I did some research and found that it is executed when CDE starts, not when a new window is opened.
To clarify, here is what I am doing. I am right-clicking on the desktop, which brings up a Desktop menu. I slide down to Tools and click, which brings up a sub-menu. Then I click on Terminal, which opens a new window with a command prompt in it. These Terminal windows are where I do 99% of my work. When I open them, neither .dtprofile nor .profile is executed.
Tim
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| If starting dtterm from the command line, you would use the option "-ls" so that it starts as a login shell. There is probably a line you can put in $HOME/.Xdefaults to force that as a default for dtterm.
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Normally, it executes in any subshell of the session. That said, if you didn't have it in place when you executed your dtlogin, it won't get executed when you spawn a new subshell of that session (i.e., when you open a new window).
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