Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:52:12 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/sh does not read profile Message-ID: <20090305165212.GA36902@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090305132352.GA8574@marge.bs.l> References: <20090304150803.GA30617@marge.bs.l> <20090305041505.GA35138@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20090305132352.GA8574@marge.bs.l>
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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 +0000 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- > > > ered a login shell. [...] A login shell first reads commands from the > > > files /etc/profile and then .profile in a user's home directory, if they > > > exist. [...] > > > > > > I use Slim (X login manager) which calls > > > > > > exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc > > > > I've never before seen the syntax you've used and I think it comes > > from a misunderstanding of the manpage for sh and/or it's a bashism or > > a typo. > > It's the original FreeBSD port. I suggest you take up your problem with the maintainer. (Mentioned at top of /usr/ports/x11/slim/Makefile). It should "just work" if that's the case. > > > E.g: > > > > /bin/sh -c somecommand (login shell - arg 0 starts with a dash) > > Sorry, this doesn't call /etc/profile either. You're right. This is what my investigations reveal: $ /bin/sh date date: Can't open date: No such file or directory Not reading /etc/profile or ~/.profile $ /bin/sh -c date Thu Mar 5 16:33:17 GMT 2009 Reading ~/.profile but not /etc/profile I'm afraid I'm not a shell guru so I don't understand that particular weirdness. I think we need a shell wizard to explain it to us - these shells and sub-shells etc. are notoriously weird in my experience and half the time I just sacrifice goats to make it work. It could be that the manpage is wrong and the shell is just meant to read ~/.profile (or I'm reading it wrong). If nobody replies on this list, I suggest you post with your problem to hackers@ > > $ uname -v > FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC $ uname -v FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jan 28 21:45:37 GMT 2009 root@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ORANGE_MP2 BTW, my user shell is ksh. > > Bertram > Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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