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!

- Nate >>

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