---------- >From: Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> 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! > >Ooops. True. Why does bash difference this files ?
It doesn't. If I create /root/.bash_profile, bash uses it. BUT root then gets a user path, not the special root path. Now, on my RH machine, I have this in .bash_profile: PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH export PATH This works fine and I get the root path (all the sbins etc.) plus /root/bin. If I do the same thing on Debian, I get the user path plus /root/bin. This is what perplexes me. -- Bruce
