May be a dumb question, but does:
$ echo $SHELL
report /bin/bash?
I have this in my .bash_profile, and ~/bin is the first thing in my path.
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
PATH="~/bin:${PATH}"
fi
-- Stephen
On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:57 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> I am running M8.0. I have added $HOME/bin to my path and I changed my
> umask to 077 in my .bashrc and, when that didn't work, I put umask 077 in
> my .bash_profile.
>
> In no case have my changes "taken". My home bin/ directory is still not in
> my path and my umask is still the 022 set in /etc/profile. It appears that
> bash is not using user-specific .bash* files for anything, at least on my
> system. I haven't done anything unusual to my system, it is what was
> installed. I have had to change umask to "umask 077" in /etc/profile so
> that this change would take place.
>
> What's up with the user config files? Anyone else running into this
> situation?
