Re: Does .profile get used by a putty session also?

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Rob,

I find it strange that your home directory is /FTP.  A Home directory is 
intended to be your own little "work space", i.e. an IFS directory 
that's unique to your user profile.  Most shops choose to use 
/home/your-userid for that.

That's not related to your question -- I just wanted to pass it along as 
an observation.  If you put a .profile (or .ssh, etc) in the /ftp 
directory, and /ftp is not unique to your user profile, then it'll 
affect other users...

Anyway, the .profile file is read by the Unix shell that's invoked. 
Some shells use .profile, and some do not -- but I believe all of the 
ones that IBM includes with the OS use it, so unless you've installed a 
different shell, the .profile file should be read when the shell is 
invoked.  It should matter whether you use Putty vs. any other terminal 
program.

You also ask where to find the file.   Files beginning with a dot are 
"hidden" files in Unix, so typically they won't show up in a directory 
listing.  As others have suggested, you can see it in WRKLNK if you use 
DSPOPT(*ALL).  If you use the 'ls' command in QShell or PASE to list 
files, you can add the -a switch to see the hidden files.

The "echo" command you posted will create the .profile file if it 
doesn't exist.

Another way to set the PATH (instead of .profile) is to set the PATH 
environment variable.  I personally have a PATH that's set system-wide 
for all of my users via ADDENVVAR LEVEL(*SYS).  Then, I override that 
setting for myself by having an ADDENVVAR LEVEL(*JOB) in the INLPGM of 
my user profile.  (I tend to do extra stuff that normal users do not.) 
Please be aware that Unix software is typically case-sensitive, so 
'PATH' is not the same as 'path' or 'Path'.

You can use .profile instead of the LEVEL(*JOB), however.  If you set it 
in both places, the .profile should take precedence.

-SK

On 7/26/2012 1:43 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I was reading
>
> http://www.iprodeveloper.com/article/application-development/using-gnupg-for-pgp-on-i-64370
>
> Typing <sic: PATH> every time I start PASE is very cumbersome.
> Fortunately, you don't have to type it every time! Instead, you can put
> the command into a special file named .profile, and the command will
> automatically be run every time you start a PASE shell. For example, I can
> type the following within PASE.
>
> echo
> "PATH=$PATH:/QOpensys/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/Zend/Core/bin:/usr/local/mysql/mysql/bin"
> > > $HOME/.profile
>
> My question is this:  Will that .profile also be used by a putty session?
>
> Another question is where do I find that .profile file?
> I did DSPUSRPRF ROB
> Home directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   /FTP
> WRKLNK '/FTP/*'
> There's nothing that which begins with a period.
>
> Rob Berendt