>From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>actually i think bash looks for ~/.profile first and ~/.bash_profile
>last. and iirc only uses one, not both.
Not according to the man page:
Login shells:
On login (subject to the -noprofile option):
if /etc/profile exists, source it.
if ~/.bash_profile exists, source it,
else if ~/.bash_login exists, source it,
else if ~/.profile exists, source it.
My work box (Red Hat) happily uses .bash_profile
but my home box (Debian) doesn't - I'll
check my home box tonight.
Thought occurs: maybe Debian has /bin/sh
for Root and not /bin/bash. When called as
sh, bash only does /etc/profile and ~/.profile
--
Bruce
