Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-17 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:23:54 -0600 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps in the distant past I edited .bashrc and forgot to make > a note of it, and then an upgrade of bash installed a new > .bashrc ? One might think that, especially if a command used to work and you hadn't c

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 23:52]: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:13:39AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > During configuration of another machine running Etch, I discovered > > that .bash_profile appears to be ignored when logging into X. > > No reason why it should be... your .ba

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:13:39AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > During configuration of another machine running Etch, I discovered > that .bash_profile appears to be ignored when logging into X. No reason why it should be... your .bash_profile is, of course, a configuration file related to th

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-16 Thread José Alburquerque
Russell L. Harris wrote: During configuration of another machine running Etch, I discovered that .bash_profile appears to be ignored when logging into X. Specifically, the problem is that the "~/bin" directory does not appear in the path when, in an X terminal, I execute: $ echo $PATH Howe

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-14 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi RLH, I think it's normal as .bash_profile is only for login shell. When you open a X terminal, it won't be read. You can put your path info in .bashrc. -- Yuwen