On 17 Aug, Fan, Laurel wrote:
>
> What shell are you using, and is it one that normally runs .profile?
I'm using the bash on a Solaris 5.6 machine. But it doesn't read
..bash_profile, either. Maybe I'll have to look in /etc/passwd or the
Solaris equivalent.
>
> One way to do things differently on different computers is to have it
> check what os/hostname it is, and run a different file depending on
> what it comes up with. Here's a way that works in both bash and csh:
>
> in the 'main' script (say, .profile), have these two lines:
> ---cut---
> source script.`uname`
> source script.`hostname`
> ---cut---
>
Now that's an elegant solution! Thanx!
Britta
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