Re: bash login for root

-- >From: Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> You caught me! What I meant was that Bash looks for .profile in /root >> instead of .bash_profile as with normal users. Yes, I'm well aware >> /root is the home directory for the 'root' user. Doh! > >Ooops. True. Why does bash difference t

Re: bash login for root

>From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >actually i think bash looks for ~/.profile first and ~/.bash_profile >last. and iirc only uses one, not both. Not according to the man page: Login shells: On login (subject to the -noprofile option): if /etc/profile exis

Mixing stable and unstable

How advisable is it to include unstable apps in my set-up. If I wanted, for example, to run a stable installation - but with gnome 1.2 from the unstable list - would that cause me problems? What I don't know is whether the unstable packages use configurations different enough that they wouldn't