Very Computer

I do all my work in ksh. When a script invokes a remote shell using rsh
where does it get its environment from ? For e.g., if I do

$ rsh <remote host> env

why does it grab some minimal default env file (or something) instead of
sourcing my .profile or .kshrc. How do I get around this ? I want to run
a script which forks another shell but goes to that machine and uses my
own .profile or .kshrc on that machine.

I don't really want to do something like:

$ rsh <remote host> -l <user> -e . .kshrc

You see, C shell sources your .cshrc every time it forks a shell but for
some reason ksh doesn't. Do you know a work around ?

I DO NOT want to modify my script to read some environment file
somewhere.

thanks,
shivi shankaran.

You should read the man page of rsh/rlogin/rshd/rlogind

since normally rlogin invokes login(1) to login the user
after standard i/o has been setup to point to some pty
you should get the shell that is entered in /etc/passwd
on the remote for your username.

Hope this helps
        Z

Quote:> You see, C shell sources your .cshrc every time it forks a shell but for
> some reason ksh doesn't. Do you know a work around ?

> I DO NOT want to modify my script to read some environment file
> somewhere.

> thanks,
> shivi shankaran.

   remsh $MAILHOST /usr/bin/ksh 2>&1 |&
   print -p "print ok"
   read -p
   [[ $REPLY != ok ]] && {
      print -u2 "$REPLY"
      exit 1
      }
   print -p "export PATH=$PATH"           # use current PATH on remote host
   print -p "export DISPLAY=$DISPLAY"
   print -p "hbiff -geometry +625+400 </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &"
   print -p exit

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Quote:>You see, C shell sources your .cshrc every time it forks a shell but for
>some reason ksh doesn't. Do you know a work around ?

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