Examples of User and Site Initialization Files

The following sections provide examples of user and site initialization files that you can use to start customizing your own initialization files. Many of the examples use system names and paths that you need to change for your particular site.

Example—.profile File

1 PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:. 
2 MAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME 
3 NNTPSERVER=server1 
4 MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man 
5 PRINTER=printer1 
6 umask 022 
7 export PATH MAIL NNTPSERVER MANPATH PRINTER 

1. Defines the user's shell search path.

2. Defines the path to the user's mail file.

3. Defines the user's Usenet news server.

4. Defines the user's search path for man pages.

5. Defines the user's default printer.

6. Sets the user's default file creation permissions.

7. Sets the listed environment variables.

Example—.cshrc File

1 set path=($PATH $HOME/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/ccs/bin)
2 setenv MAIL /var/mail/$LOGNAME 
3 setenv NNTPSERVER server1 
4 setenv PRINTER printer1 
5 alias h history 
6 umask 022 
7 source /net/server2/site-init-files/site.login 

1. Defines the user's shell search path.

2. Defines the path to the user's mail file.

3. Defines the user's Usenet news server.

4. Defines the user's default printer.

5. Creates an alias for the history command (the user will need to type only h to run the history command).

6. Sets the user's default file creation permissions.

7. Sets the listed environment variables.