Paul, et al., Thanks for the reply.
I think I'm making fundamental mistake in understanding the difference between a login shell and non-login shell. I found out that the ~/.bash_profile is read when, for example, I do the following: C:\>ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: in .bash_profile << echo % Vs. opening a new shell to work at the command line, for example, in KDE: Alt-F2 konsole So, knowing this... I can work around by putting my CLASSPATH, etc. in my ~/.bashrc but this seems like a poor hack. What is the best practice? Thanks, Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Campbell [mailto:seapwc@;halcyon.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 15:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: need help with ~/.bash_profile > > > 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
