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When logging into a UNIX/Linux box, which profile scripts are executed?
When logging into a UNIX/Linux box, which profile scripts are executed?
Typically there are several different profile scripts that set the $PATH variable and other aspects of the user's environment. ...
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umask does not have -S option
I'm trying to use umask -S to show the current mask in symbolic form (per man umask on my system, which gives me the page BASH_BUILTINS(1)). But umask doesn't seem to behave as the manpage claims:
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user resources csh.login restrictions
I need to fix a vulnerability in a RedHat 6 server:
File /etc/csh.login must exist, and must trigger an invocation of source /etc/profile.d/IBMsinit.sh.
I verified file csh.login is in /etc, but I ...
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Having problems changing umask in csh
So i'm running RHEL 6.5 and I have a user that wants to use csh for what they are doing. They also want the umask to be set to 002. So I started to put
umask 002 into .cshrc and call it a day. ...
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Does $SHELL store the path to the default shell in Linux?
My administrator says that my default shell is set to bash, but
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/csh
$
Is the default shell related to the SHELL variable at all? Is not, what is the variable used for?
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