Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Conﬁguring a System

Making Adjustments

Chapter 3270

Changes you make using set_parms will take effect after you reboot the

system. See “Booting Systems” on page 464.

Customizing System-Wide and User Login

Environments

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 Korn and POSIX shell users and in /etc/csh.login

for C shell users.

User login scripts can be used to override the system defaults. When

SAM adds a user, default user login scripts are copied to the user’s home

directory. For Korn and POSIX shell users /etc/skel/.profile is

copied to $HOME as .profile. For C shell users, /etc/skel/.login and

/etc/skel/.cshrc are copied to $HOME as .login and .cshrc. Refer to

Shells: User’s Guide and 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 SAM or HP-UX commands to perform the backup, as

described in “Backing Up Data” on page 674.

font_c-s Network font service. This allows you to conﬁgure

your workstation to be a font client or server. As a

font client, your workstation uses the font ﬁles on a

network server rather than using the fonts on its

own hard disk, thus saving disk space. System RAM

usage is reduced for font clients, but increased for

font servers.

Table 3-5 set_parms Options (Continued)

option

Description