See 'man bash' how the bash starts.
In short, when you login on console (bash ist invoked as a login shell)
/etc/profile and than ~/.bash_profile is executed. Otherwhise only
~/bashrc is executed.
Martin
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Johann Spies wrote:
> I am trying to install real player and have the following lines in my
> ~/.bash_profile:
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/src/rvplayer5.0
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/src/rvplayer5.0
>
> When I do an "echo $PATH" in the console, I get:
>
>
> .::/home/jhspies/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/use/X11R6/bin:
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/etc:/etc:/sbin:
> /usr/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/home/jhspies/bin:
> /usr/arx/bin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:
> /home/jhspies/Office51/bin:/usr/local/src/rvplayer5.0
>
> However when I do it in xterm I get
>
> .::/home/jhspies/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/use/X11R6/bin:
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/etc:/etc:/sbin:
> /usr/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/home/jhspies/bin:
> /usr/arx/bin:/usr/local/lib
>
> Does X11 ignore ~/.bash_profile?
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