Re: Konsole not running bash_profile
On 8/24/06, Alejandro Exojo <suy@badopi.org> wrote:
El Jueves, 24 de Agosto de 2006 10:11, Tom A escribió:
> For some reason my latest Debian install doesn't seem to have configured
> something correctly. When launching Konsole, my ~/.bash_profile doesn't
> seem to run. Not even $PS1 is set. From what I can see only /etc/profile is
> run.
>
> If I start konsole with -ls (login shell) I do get $PS1 correctly set but
> still don't have my bash_profile. If I then run bash from the opened shell
> my bash_profile is run.
.bash_profile (or .profile, or...) is only read in _login_ shells (i.e., if
you enter your password). If you open konsole, you don't login, so
only .bashrc is read.
Thanks Alex - in that case my problem is that when I run konsole my ~/.bashrc isn't read.
Tom
Reply to: