Re: bash login for root

[Julio Merino <jmmv@mail.com>]

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!

Ooops. True. Why does bash difference this files ?

Thanks.

> 
> - Nate >>
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