Do you logoff and logon after changing the bash. env | grep SHELL will tell you what you are actually running
At 01:54 PM 10/31/02 -0500, you wrote: >While I'm not a newbie with Linux (mostly abuse Apache and Java on my box) I take a >lot of things for granted. One is how BASH works. It works most of the time. > >In fact I'm a TCSH convert to BASH. In RHL 7.3 BASH is the default shell, hence my >conversion. But let me ask about the ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, etc. files. >They don't seem to work. > >I have looked up all the documentation. The man pages state that ~/.bash_profile is >read in turn with /etc/bashrc and ~/.bashrc but the ~/.bash_profile is disabled or >just not being read. I have CLASSPATH settings for my shell in this file and have to >manually source it with each new shell I use. Annoying. > >Is there something I'm missing here? Something that needs to be turned on? I saw a >reference to BASH_PROFILE="TRUE" on one site but that didn't do the trick. > >Any help is greatly appreciated. > >Thanks, >Tim > >/** > * Timothy Stone . Sun Certified Java Programmer > * Web Master . tstone at cityofhbg dot com > * City of Harrisburg . 717.255.7297 > * Pennsylvania USA . 717.903.9162 > * > * "This Satan's drink [coffee] is so delicious, > * we shall cheat Satan and baptize it." > * --Pope Clement VIII > */ > > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
