bash not running ~/.bash_profile

[James Buchanan <james.au@iinet.net.au>]

Hi,

For some reason my ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc are not being executed 
by bash.  Is there some way I can fix this problem?  I tried to add a 
script S10sourceprofile to /etc/rc2.d/ but that didn't work.

I'm using Sarge.  I've searched Google and a few people seem to have 
this problem, and the bash docs say that these only get executed if the 
shell is being run as a login shell.  In this case it would seem that 
only my /etc/profile is being run.  I suppose I could add:

if [-f ~/.bash_profile]; then
	. ~/bash_profile
fi

to /etc/profile, but then I don't know if that would somehow break my 
system, since I am not sure if bash is being run in interactive mode on 
purpose...

What can I do to solve this issue?  My system logs me in using kdm, by 
the way.  Not sure if init runs a bash login shell which then runs kdm 
or whatever.

Thanks,
James