On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:38:27AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:54:17PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > > > in my thinking, that reason would be: > > > > home directory for user 'root' is /root. > > > > :) > > 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! actually i think bash looks for ~/.profile first and ~/.bash_profile last. and iirc only uses one, not both. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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