On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 19:17 -0400, John R. Graham wrote: > Rats. I checked the source and you're right. My problem domain is > smaller than I thought but still valid, I think. Basically the problem > is only with interactive login shells and /root. Not *broken*, per se: > just contrary to recommended practice. The Bash documentation > *recommends* that a ~/.bash_profile exists so that ~/.bashrc can be made > to be sourced for login shells and codifies its recommendation by > putting a template .bash_profile in /etc/skel.
Looking over the bash man page, I cannot see the word recommended anywhere near .bash_profile. Could you clarify where you think bash recommends this? Thanks Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
