Skip to main content

Discuss System wide shell configuration Scripts in Linux.

30.Discuss System wide shell configuration Scripts in Linux.
Ans.
1. These files determine the default environment settings of system shells and what functions are started every time a user launches a new shell.

2. Configuration files present in ‘/etc’ affects all shells used on the system.

3. An individual user can also set up a default configuration files in his or her home directory that affects only his or her shells.

4. Shell configuration scripts are ‘bashrc’, ‘csh.cshrc’, ‘zshrc’. ‘bashrc’ is read by bash, ‘csh.cshrc’ is read by tcsh; and zchrc is read by zsh.

5. These files are read every time a shell is launched, not just upon login, they determine the setting and behaviors of the shells on the system.

6. ‘/etc/profile’ this file is read by all shells except tcsh and csh upon login.

7. If we need to change the default path of your shell in ‘/etc/profile’ you can add another path statement in path manipulation section of ‘/etc/profile’.

8. Example:
We have created a ‘/songs’ on our system and want this directory in system search path, we can add the following line to the end of the similar lines:
Pathmunge /songs



Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Explain how to configure DHCP client?

50.Explain how to configure DHCP client? Ans. 1. Before configuring DHCP, NIC should be configured properly and recognized by the system. 2. After that it’s easy to command system to use DHCP to obtain its IP information. 3. Configuring DHCP client involves following steps : a. Open the /etc/sysconfig/networkscripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. b. Find the line bootproto=static c. Change the static to dhcp. d. Save changes. e. Restart the network by issuing command ‘service network restart’, after that system will receive its IP information from the DHCP server.

QT practicals files

Temporarily Available: Click below to download|||||||||||

Explain memory and virtual file system in Linux.

22.Explain memory and virtual file system in Linux. Ans. 1. These file systems do not exist on disk in the same way that traditional file systems do, they either exists entirely in the system memory or they are virtual because they are an interface to system devices. 2. cramfs: cramfs is designed to cram a file System onto a small flash memory device, so it is small, simple and able to compress things well. The largest file size is 16MB and the largest file system size is 256MB since cramfs is so compressed, it isn’t instantly updateable. 3. tmpfs: tmpfs is structured around the idea that whatever is put in the /tmp file system is accessed again shortly, tmpfs solely in memory, so what you put in /tmp doesn’t persist between reboots. 4. ramfs: ramfs is basically cramfs without the compression. 5. romfs: This is a read only file system that is mostly used for initial ramdisks of installation disks. It was designed to take up very little space, so you could fit a ke...