IRIS 3010, User Manual

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Version 1.0 SERIES 3000
IRIS OWNER’S GUIDE 4-9 Workstation Administration
/etc/inittab This file contains the table that init uses to dispatch
processes for initializing devices, starting daemons,
and starting the shell. See inittab (4), and init (1M).
/etc/model This file contains the model number of the IRIS.
/etc/motd This file contains the message of the day, which is
displayed each time a user logs in to an IRIS
workstation.
/etc/passwd This file contains information about the users with
accounts on the workstation. It includes each user’s
name, user number, group number, home directory,
and login shell. See Section 4.2.2 and passwd (1).
/etc/profile This file is read at login by accounts that specify the
Bourne shell as the login shell. It contains
commands that define the user’s environment. See
sh (1) or profile (4).
/etc/rc This command file is executed by init (1M) at the
start of multi-user mode. Typically, it is used to
start daemons and mount file systems. See
brc (1M).
/etc/rc.fs This shell script mounts file systems on appropriate
devices, according to the model number of the
workstation. It is called by the program /etc/rc when
multi-user mode is entered.
/etc/sys_id This file contains the name of the system, which is
always IRIS on a new workstation. See Section 4.2,
hostname (1), and sys_id (4).
/etc/rc.getdate If a file with this name exists and is executable, the
standard output of its execution is used as the
argument to date (1). Otherwise, the user is
prompted for the date.
/etc/termcap This file contains definitions of different terminal
types. See termcap (4).
/etc/ttytype This file contains a mapping of the terminal types
attached to each tty port on the IRIS workstation.
This file is read by tset (1) and by login to initialize
the terminal (TERM) environment variable at login.
See tset (1) and ttytype (4).
/etc/TZ This file contains an entry for the time zone.
Several different utilities use this file. /etc/TZ
contains three fields: