On 12/9/17 6:09 PM, Yuri wrote:
> On 12/09/17 15:01, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> Since it doesn't happen on any other OS, I suspect an issue with either the
>> FreeBSD port or the pathname that appears in argv[0] when the shell is
>> started, which is what bash uses to detect that it's been invoked as a
>> login shell.
>
>
> The full path is /usr/local/bin/bash as set in passwd db. It doesn't run
> ~/.profile when I run it manually using this path.
Of course not: that's not a login shell. As the documentation says,
"A login shell is one whose first character of argument zero is a -, or
one started with the --login option."
The INVOCATION section of the manual page explains it in exhaustive detail.
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