On Wednesday 02 June 2004 05:41, richard lyons wrote: > On Tuesday 01 June 2004 19:43, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from richard lyons: > > [...] > > > > ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile are not read unless I 'source' > > > them manually. I've never understood why. > > > > I always wondered that too, but the chickens are beginning to > > come home to roost. Someone explained the fix for this yesterday > > in the "KDE and PATH" (or somesuch) thread. See lists.debian.org > > My bad. I skimmed the start of that thread, decided it didn't > interest me as I don't run kde any more, and skipped it thereafter. [...] Actually this turned out to be a different problem. Only reading the 'Problems with $PATH and KDE' thread started me thinking until I inspected /etc/passwd -- and found that there was no shell specified after the last colon against my username. Adding /bin/bash there gave me what I wanted all along.
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