[3579] in RedHat Linux List
Re: .profile
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Sat Nov 9 12:20:13 1996
To: Borg <"vladimip "@iceonline.com>, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Nov 1996 13:25:32 PST."
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Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 11:18:31 -0600
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
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> Daniel Chalef wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > My ~user/.profile files are not being executed by bash. This is extremely
> > annoying, and as yet, I have yet to work out why...
~/.profile is supposed to be sourced by bash at startup; from the man page
Login shells:
On login (subject to the -noprofile option):
if /etc/profile exists, source it.
if ~/.bash_profile exists, source it,
else if ~/.bash_login exists, source it,
else if ~/.profile exists, source it.
But ~/.profile is sourced only at login. There could be the following
1) You are experimenting in an xterm. Xterm usually is not run a login
shell. Maybe you want to start xterm as `xterm -ls'.
2) There is a syntax error in .profile you are experimenting with.
3) ~/.bash_profile exists
4) Maybe you reset variables in .bashrc.
To test that bash really sources .profile, why do not you make a
.profile with the two lines
MYNAMEISTHIS=`whoami`
export MYNAMEISTHIS
Then either start an xterm as `xterm -ls' or flip to a VC, login and
do
echo $MYNAMEISTHIS
You should get your username echoed.
If not, you have a problem. If the above experiment is OK, then the
problem is 2), and do a debugging.
Mate
M\'at\'e Wierdl
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Memphis,
E-mail: matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu
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