"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My understanding with the original Bourne shell was that when it > starts up, it will execute .profile in the users home directory. How > does this work in bash? I have a .bash_profile but I know that it > isn't executed since my PATH variable isn't updated everytime I log on.
This is discussed near the top of bash(1), under "INVOCATION"; 'man bash' for details. Note that you only get a 'login shell' when you log in from a console login prompt, generally not at all under X. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
