Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:27:06 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/sh does not read profile Message-ID: <20090306022706.GA38428@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <31137799.01236305475066.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> References: <20090306004003.99091e42.freebsd@edvax.de> <31137799.01236305475066.JavaMail.HALO$@halo>
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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 "~/.shrc". > > > >I just cannot believe that FreeBSD has such a severe bug. What is > >going wrong here? > > 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 plain old BSD. How can I get it to load .bashrc when I login? > I'm using a 7.0 binary release. You should be able to put: source $HOME/.bashrc in ~/.bash_profile That's if $HOME is set. Otherwise use the full path. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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