From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 25 0:23:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8345837BA8C for <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 25 May 2000 00:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA65302; Thu, 25 May 2000 00:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <392CD456.F9FF922F@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 00:20:54 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0523 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Camba <beesea@freewwweb.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with startup files References: <392C2834.EB99F7BF@freewwweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Camba wrote: > > what's up everyone? > > i've just intalled freebsd, and i'm encountering a weird problem. my > .profile and .shrc don't seem to be executed at startup. i can tell > because when i use env at the prompt, some of the environment variables > are different from what i set in my .profile (i.e. path), and some > aren't even set at all. also, i've made sure that i exported all the > variables because i originally thought that was the problem. > > does anyone know what is wrong? Are you sure you're using Bourne shell as your login shell? -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message