"Leo Peschier said" > > Hi Leo, > > > > man bash has a good explanation about bash startup. Particularly, > > INVOCATION. You basically got it right. :) > > > > When you su it is a non-login shell therefore, /etc/profile is not > > executed. Since it is your system, you can change the scripts to > > behave the way you want. (snap) > > > > I imagine the startup scripts are setup this way for security reasons. > > (snap) > > Thanks Shawn for your explanation. > In fact I had changed .bashrc to set PATH and PS1. I kinda overlooked umask > at > the time, I guess. > I began to wonder if my set-up was right when I noticed that building LFS 6.2 > (with BLFS 6.1 as host) in the chroot phase, I made group-writable system > files, > due to umask set at 0002. > Leo. >
Leo, 'su -' will su into a login shell. /etc/profile will be executed as will ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login and ~/.profile. HTH, -Jeff -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
