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    <title>topic Re: How to keep a .profile in / of ESXi? in ESXi Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680179#M260540</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I edited /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh to copy the file that I keep on one of my datastores. After reboot, it worked fine. (So, yes, this does work in 6.0.) Thanks!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:03:25 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>paulehoffman</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2015-11-24T18:03:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How to keep a .profile in / of ESXi?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680176#M260537</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Greetings. On an ESXi 6 box, I enter a .profile file in / with a few simple aliases in it. It remains just fine when I log out from SSH and log in again. However, if I restart the box, the file disappears. How do I tell ESXi on bootup to not remove this file?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:29:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680176#M260537</guid>
      <dc:creator>paulehoffman</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-11-23T21:29:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to keep a .profile in / of ESXi?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680177#M260538</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;ESXi does not remove that file on boot-up, it simply does not save it. ESXi runs from memory. So if you created some file (i.e. /.profile) it is only in "memory-disk", not in disk-image which is loaded again at the next boot-up.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Either create custom vib and install it as every other, or use rc.local which is persistent (any changes you make to this file survive boot-up). You can create &amp;amp; save that file somewhere else and use rc.local to copy it to /, or use rc.local with shell commands to create .profile at every boot-up.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Wait a minute, you are using ESXi 6.0, right? I'm not sure if there is /etc/rc.local, but it used to be in 5.0/5.5...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:00:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680177#M260538</guid>
      <dc:creator>JarryG</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-11-24T08:00:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to keep a .profile in / of ESXi?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680178#M260539</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;as per my understanding if you looking for backing up the esxi configuration and changes made, use the below command, the changes should be saved &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"&gt;# backup ESXi configuration to persist changes&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/sbin/auto-backup.sh &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:17:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680178#M260539</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nithy07cs055</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-11-24T13:17:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to keep a .profile in / of ESXi?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680179#M260540</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I edited /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh to copy the file that I keep on one of my datastores. After reboot, it worked fine. (So, yes, this does work in 6.0.) Thanks!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:03:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680179#M260540</guid>
      <dc:creator>paulehoffman</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-11-24T18:03:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to keep a .profile in / of ESXi?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680180#M260541</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm glad it worked for you. BTW you are right: instead of single file /etc/rc.local (as in 5.0) there is now the whole sub-dir /etc/rc.local.d/ but functionality is the same...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:48:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-keep-a-profile-in-of-ESXi/m-p/2680180#M260541</guid>
      <dc:creator>JarryG</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-11-24T18:48:32Z</dc:date>
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