Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

[David List <david@davidlist.dk>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Torsten Reuss wrote:

>Hmm. Two more ideas:
>- Are you sure you are actually using bash as your shell (check in
>/etc/passwd) ?

Absolutely.

>- How exactly do you try to logout and login again (e.g. a `su user´
>will not parse .profile, while a `su - user´ will).

Regular logins and logouts. No su'ing or the like.

>Note on the /etc/skel/.bash_profile: Removing it will not have any
>effect, it will just avoid .bash_profile being created in new users'
>home directories if you create them.

I guessed as much.

Best regards,
David List