summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/execline-startup.html
blob: 69b37975a6956ec5dab13e45744e1f31f9f1796e (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
<html>
  <head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" />
    <title>execline: the execline-startup script</title>
    <meta name="Description" content="execline: the execline-startup script" />
    <meta name="Keywords" content="execline execline-startup startup login script .profile" />
    <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://skarnet.org/default.css" /> -->
  </head>
<body>

<p>
<a href="index.html">execline</a><br />
<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br />
<a href="http://skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a>
</p>

<h1> The <tt>execline-startup</tt> script </h1>

<p>
<tt>execline-startup</tt> performs some system-specific
login initialization, then executes <tt>${HOME}/.execline-loginshell</tt>.
</p>

<h2> Interface </h2>

<pre>
     /etc/execline-startup
</pre>

<ul>
 <li> <tt>execline-startup</tt> sets the <tt>SHELL</tt>
environment variable to <tt>/etc/execline-shell</tt>.
It then performs some system-specific initialization, and
transforms itself into <tt>${HOME}/.execline-loginshell $@</tt>
if available (and <tt>/etc/execline-shell</tt> otherwise). </li>
 <li><tt>${HOME}/.execline-loginshell</tt> must be readable and
executable by the user. It must exec into <tt>$SHELL $@</tt>. </li>
</ul>

<h2> Notes </h2>

<ul>
 <li> <tt>execline-startup</tt> is an
<a href="execlineb.html">execlineb</a> script; hence, it is readable
and modifiable. It is meant to be modified by the system administrator
to perform system-specific login-time initialization. </li>
 <li> As a modifiable configuration file, execline-startup is provided in execline's
<tt>examples/etc/</tt> subdirectory, and should be copied by the administrator
to <tt>/etc</tt>. </li>
 <li> <tt>execline-startup</tt> is meant to be used as a login shell.
System administrators should manually add <tt>/etc/execline-startup</tt>
to the <tt>/etc/shells</tt> file. The <tt>/etc/execline-startup</tt>
file itself plays the role of the <tt>/etc/profile</tt> file, and
<tt>${HOME}/.execline-loginshell</tt> plays the role of the
<tt>${HOME}/.profile</tt> file.</li>
</ul>

</body>
</html>