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Working with Linux howtos

• Troubleshooting memory usage
• Moving files around: Setting up FTP
• Backup FTP server: offsite backups that you control
• SCP: an FTP alternative
• Automated incremental backups: Script to automate backups using SSHFS and rdiff-backup
• Securing your server: is your port showing?
• Securing your server: setting up a Linux firewall using IPTables and Webmin
• Preventing Brute Force SSH Attacks
• Backups with rSync
• Automated backups with RSync
• Accurate time with NTP
• Setting a UTC timezone
• Changing a hostname
• Application environment setup (using bash profiles)

Application Environment Setup Using /etc/profile.d/*

When a user logs in, environment variables are set from various places.  That includes /etc/profile (for all users).

Then all the files in the /etc/profile.d directory.

Then ~/.bash_profile, then ~/.bashrc.

/etc/profile.d/ is a good place to put your application specific setups.  For example, I always use SSH for CVS (cf. RSH).  So I use:

See also: http://www.linux-migration.org/ch02s03.html

Resolving 'But it doesn't work!'

Check your /etc/profile.d/ script has a .sh extension.  Else it looks like the bash shell will not pick it up.