Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi Frank, Am Donnerstag, 05. Mär 2009, 04:15:05 + schrieb Frank Shute: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:08:03PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: from man sh: Invocation [...] the shell inspects argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also consid-

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:23:52PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi Frank, Hi Bertram, Am Donnerstag, 05. Mär 2009, 04:15:05 + schrieb Frank Shute: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:08:03PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: from man sh: Invocation [...] the shell inspects

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Polytropon
Good evening Betram et al. I've read the discussion thread as far as it went and would like to share my own solution to a similar problem, mapped onto the sh topic. Maybe it works. A little background: First of all, because my standard dialog shell is the system's C shell, the files important

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread J65nko
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Bertram Scharpf li...@bertram-scharpf.de wrote: Hi, from man sh: Invocation [...] When first starting, the shell inspects argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also consid- ered a login shell. This is normally done

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Peter Steele
I first wondered why none of my commands in /etc/profile and ~/.profile got executed. Finally, I modified /usr/src/bin/sh/main.c to trace what files are read, recompiled the sh command and: the only file that is executed is ~/.shrc. I just cannot believe that FreeBSD has such a severe bug.

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:11:18 -0800 (PST), Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: I have a similar problem, but with bash. I have both my personal account and root set to use bash instead of sh and when I login the .bashrc file is not read. My system does not have an X environment, it's

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:11:18PM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: I first wondered why none of my commands in /etc/profile and ~/.profile got executed. Finally, I modified /usr/src/bin/sh/main.c to trace what files are read, recompiled the sh command and: the only file that is executed is

/bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-04 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, from man sh: Invocation [...] When first starting, the shell inspects argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also consid- ered a login shell. This is normally done automatically by the system when the user first logs in. A login shell first

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:08:03PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, from man sh: Invocation [...] When first starting, the shell inspects argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also consid- ered a login shell. This is normally done