On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 12:15:53PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've just done a fresh netinst of Wheezy and want to proceed with my > personal configuring in a way that is not fighting with the Debian > view of how things should be done. I've used Debian since Potato, I > think, but have always hacked things until they seemed to be > working. Now, I want to try to do things in the way the developers had > in mind when they built the install CD images. > > I see the file ~/.profile . It contains code that tests for the > existence of ~/bin/ and adds it to $PATH , if it exists. But it > doesn't 'work'. After I have created my ~/bin/. and filled it with > some scripts, and rebooted, there is still no mention of ~/bin/ in > $PATH . Why? When does ~/.profile actually get invoked? Is there some > part of the boot process that must be configured in order to invoke > it? I used the CD that installs Xfce for i386 on an older HP > tower. Not sure what further details are necessary to diagnose > this. Please ask specific questions if I have left something needed > out.
You've probably looked at the obvious, but let's make sure. You don't have a ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login per the comments in ~/.profile? Your scripts in ~/bin are executable (chmod 700)? You said you rebooted, so that should be fine. BTW, a logout/log back in should be enough here. I don't know if xfce has any impact on the execution of ~/.profile at login. Have you tried to run your scripts or looking at the output of export from a text console like tty1? If your scripts run from there, and the path variable shows up, then this is something with how ~/.profile and xfce interact. If that's the case, someone else will have to help you. That's all I can think of. Maybe someone else will have other ideas. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg public key: http://www.gregn..net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131209204123.ga20...@gregn.net