On Du, 01 ian 12, 15:15:15, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > > Another puzzle. I have two Squeeze systems which are almost identical. > In both, my entry in /etc/passwd is the same and I added this line at > the end of ~/.profile. > > export EDITOR=vi > > On one system "echo $EDITOR" confirms the setting. On the other system > the setting is absent. Where should I look to understand this? My guess is that you are using a display manager that is not sourcing .profile, but you should provide more info (console or terminal emulator, how do you start X, etc.). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature