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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Minor problems with Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.165622.22732@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 16:56:22 GMT
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- In article <711857605.F00038@remote.halcyon.com>, Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin) writes:
- |
- | CM> Speaking of .profiles, what is the name of the ".login" that bash
- | executes
- | CM> just before coming up? I would like to set my PATH variable
- | CM> to inclue ".", but I haven't been able to stumble into the name of
- | the
- | CM> initialization script for bash (i've never seen any documemtation
- | on bash
- | CM> anywhere!
- |
- | Cathy,
- |
- | It seems to vary from root disk to root disk. Try ".bash_profile" on
- | Jim Winstead's root, though you may have to change your shell name in
- | /etc/passwd to "bash" instead of "sh". On MCC, I'm not sure.
-
- What am I missing? The shell with both the mj and drs (sc.tamu.edu)
- versions seem to like .profile just fine.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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