Configuring Your Environment
This section describes how you can customize the environment that you get when you log in, and then describes some of the setup you might need to do.
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- What happens when you log in?
Before you start customizing your login environment, you should understand just what happens when you log in, because the nature of the customization determines where you should make it. You should consider these questions:
- Customizing your home
Your home directory is where you can store all the files and directories that are relevant to you. It's a good place to store your own binaries and scripts.
- Configuring your shell
There are many files that configure your environment; this section describes some of the more useful ones.
- Environment variables
Many applications use environment variables to control their behavior. For example, less gets the width of the terminal or window from the COLUMNS environment variable; many utilities write any temporary files in the directory specified by TMPDIR.
- Configuration strings
In addition to environment variables, Neutrino uses configuration strings. These are system variables that are like environment variables, but are more dynamic.
- Terminal types
You need to set the TERM environment variable to indicate to your console what type of terminal you're using.
- Troubleshooting