Re: Using vendor scripts and modules

[Robert M. <eg...@ce...>]

"Douglas J. Reitmeier" wrote:
> 
> We have a vendor, Catia, that provides a .profile and an environment
> file read by the .profile to set up the user environment.  Does anyone
> know if it is possible to use these scripts in a module or do I have to
> convert the script to a module?
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Doug Reitmeier
> dou...@ud...

It would defeat the purpose of modules to use a .profile directly in
modules.  Modules is a shell independent way of setting up a users
environment.  A ".profile" is inherently a shell specific script.
Also, using module scripts allow changes made to the environment to
be undone.

To gain the benefits of using modules you should recode the .profile
into a module script.  This is usually a very simple task.

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