Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-03 Thread Michael Beattie
[...] > > Are you sure that /bin/bash is your login shell for root and not > > /bin/sh? > > Doh! Blush. What can I say? Thanks, that certainly clears that > problem. > > The situation did not arise until I installed a 2.1.x kernel in mid > November. At home I rarely reboot and I leave ro

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > [...] > > When I rename .bash_profile to .bash_login nothing changes, but when I > > change its name to .profile it does get processed during login and I get > > root's correct path. > > Are you s

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1998-12-02 18:24, Ralph Winslow wrote: > .profile is read by all the shells that I know of (including bash when > invoked > as /bin/sh (usually a link to bash on Linux systems)) csh/tcsh does not read /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile (as this shell script flavor is incompatible with the "Bourne

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-02 Thread Ralph Winslow
When [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, I replied: > > What's the difference between naming the file .bash_profile, .bash_login, or > .profile? .profile is read by all the shells that I know of (including bash when invoked as /bin/sh (usually a link to bash on Linux systems)) > BTW, I copied the /root/.b

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-02 Thread homega
Santiago Vila Doncel dixit: > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > [...] > > When I rename .bash_profile to .bash_login nothing changes, but when I > > change its name to .profile it does get processed during login and I get > > root's correct path. > > Are you sure that /bin/bash is

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-02 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > [...] > When I rename .bash_profile to .bash_login nothing changes, but when I > change its name to .profile it does get processed during login and I get > root's correct path. Are you sure that /bin/bash is your login shell for root and not /bin/sh?

.bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-02 Thread Lindsay Allen
A while back I upgraded my slink box and now root's .bash_profile is not being processed at login. Normal users do not have a problem. The bash man page says When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/pro-