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HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management: HP-UX 11i Version 3 > Chapter 2 Configuring System Parameters

Customizing System-Wide and User Login Environments

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Defaults for system-wide variables, such as time-zone setting, terminal type, search path, and mail and news notification, can be set in /etc/profile for POSIX and Korn shell users and in /etc/csh.login for C shell users.

User login scripts can be used to override the system defaults. When HP SMH or useradd adds a user, default user login scripts are copied to the user’s home directory from the skeleton directory, which defaults to /etc/skel. See “Changing the Skeleton Directory”. The POSIX and Korn shells use .profile. The C shell uses .login and .cshrc. See the Shells: User’s Guide and the Technical Addendum to the Shells: User’s Guide for information on customizing user login scripts.

NOTE: Do a full backup once you have initially set up and customized your system. This allows you to reconstruct your system — kernel, system files, file system structure, user structures, and your customized files — if you need to. Use HP-UX commands to perform the backup, as described in the HP-UX System Administrator’s Guide: Routine Tasks.
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