On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 20:42, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:36:57PM +1200, John Batistic wrote: > > Is .profile normally ignored? > > 'man bash', and read the INVOCATION section carefully. I bet you're > using an X terminal emulator that doesn't spawn a login shell, so you > should be looking at something other than .profile. >
> Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Yes As 'Shaleh' pointed out in the man page, bash checks commmands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. ~.bash_profile is the relevant file in my system and if I add export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt to .bash_profile, QTDIR is correctly defined in my environment variables, but that fixes only part of the problem. I have listed my source, makefile and make output in another posting John Batistic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
