Customizing your Environment

Customizing your environment

Since you have a Unity account, your environment comes "preset" with several global defaults. These are automatically executed when you login by the ".login" and ".mylogin" files. To see what's in your ".mylogin file", make sure you are in your home directory and use the "more" command to view it.

You should have something similar to the following:

	
	unity% more .mylogin [return]
	if ($?DISPLAY == 1) then
	source ~/.login_x
	endif
	setenv PRINTER lp2
	unity%

There is not much in this file except display and printer information. But, this is the file you would customize if you wanted to change something about your environment (such as customizing your prompt). It is recommended that you do not alter this file unless you are sure of what you are doing.

For more information on customizing, you should take the Center's course Advanced Unity Commands or enter tutor from your unity prompt and review the Eos/Unity tutorials.

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