Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile

2004-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:53:35AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Sep 20 10:08, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>>On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 20 18:10, luke[...] wrote: >>> ^^ >>>Hmmm? >> >>Urgh

Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile

2004-09-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, John Morrison wrote: > > One solution is to remove /etc/skel/.bash_profile after the installs > > (maybe even in your own site-specific postinstall script). I don't know > > if the base-files postinstall script will re-create that file, though -- > > if it does, it needs to b

Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile

2004-09-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 20 10:08, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > On Sep 20 18:10, luke[...] wrote: > >^^ > > Hmmm? > > Urgh, sorry about that. That's what mutt creates when no real n

Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile

2004-09-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 20 10:08, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Sep 20 18:10, luke[...] wrote: >^^ > Hmmm? Urgh, sorry about that. That's what mutt creates when no real name is given. Does anyb

Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile

2004-09-20 Thread John Morrison
> One solution is to remove /etc/skel/.bash_profile after the installs > (maybe even in your own site-specific postinstall script). I don't know > if the base-files postinstall script will re-create that file, though -- > if it does, it needs to be fixed. The base-files postinstall script will at

Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile

2004-09-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 20 18:10, lukekendallcisracanoncomau wrote: ^^ Hmmm? > > I looked into a problem reported today, that ~/.profile is not executed > > if you use Cygwin to create your home direc

Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile

2004-09-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 20 18:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I looked into a problem reported today, that ~/.profile is not executed > if you use Cygwin to create your home directory, instead of using > Windows Explorer to create the directory. > > The user who reported it and I played around for a while, with get

Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile

2004-09-20 Thread luke . kendall
I looked into a problem reported today, that ~/.profile is not executed if you use Cygwin to create your home directory, instead of using Windows Explorer to create the directory. The user who reported it and I played around for a while, with getfacl and setfacl to try to find the difference and f