Martin, The problem seems to be a little more complicated. When I use "Terminal", (the default terminal that comes with mac os x), /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile, etc. are executed, in the expected, correct order.
>From the X11 installation (of Apple), there is another terminal, known as "X11". Unfortunately, this seems to follow a completely different procedure. It does not seem to execuate /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile, etc. at all. Only for the root, this correct order seems to work. I checked it by giving the command "su -" in the X11 terminal. Thus, there is either a bug in the X11 terminal or the required documentation is not easily available. Although the problem with X11's terminal not solved, I know that "Terminal" at least is working. Thanks and regards. Kannan On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Martin Costabel wrote: > Kannan Moudgalya wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need some help in configuring my PowerBook. I installed Tiger 10.4.2 > > and upgraded it to 10.4.6. I don't know where the system looks for > > startup profiles. It does not seem to execute /etc/profile or > > .bash_profile as well as .profile. Thanks. > > Read "man bash", section "INVOCATION". The (complicated) order of > startup files is described there, and OSX bash runs them in that order. > You will have to look inside those files, too, to see what they are > doing, because they can call other files, for example /etc/profile > usually calls /etc/bashrc. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
