.bash_profile not being read during user login??

Ralph Crongeyer rcrongeyer at rpicc.com
Mon Jun 9 16:50:08 GMT 2003


On Monday 09 June 2003 04:32 pm, Wuss912 wrote:

A normal user. root user is fine.

> What user?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Ralph Crongeyer
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:28 PM
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> Subject: .bash_profile not being read during user login??
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I posted a message about qtella earlier and I now found that the file
> .bash_profile is not being read during user login. Even if I change
> .bash_profile to just two lines: PATH=$PATH:/opt/lunar/kde/3/bin export
> PATH
>
> after login my path is still:
> /usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin
>
> if I issue: PATH=$PATH:/opt/lunar/kde/3/bin
>
> at the command line it changes the path to
> /usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/lunar/kde/3
>/ bin
> as it should.
>
> Anyone know what's hapening or how to fix this?
>
> Ralph
>
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Ralph Crongeyer
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