VMS: logicals UNIX: links, but...

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at quintus.UUCP
Mon Apr 17 13:52:38 AEST 1989


In article <10058 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1604 at blake.acs.washington.edu> mtsu at blake.acs.washington.edu (Montana State) writes:
>>There isn't any easy way for me to force a user to execute a startup
>>script that sets up all of the environment variables for him.  
>
>It's called /etc/profile.

The method I suggested (hacking /etc/gettytab) is a BSD-ism.
The method Doug Gwyn suggests is a SysV-ism, not available on this
copy of SunOS 3.5, but obviously the right way to go.



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