From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 10 20:01:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA07020 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:01:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA07006 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:01:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id AAA06747 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:57:01 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA03012; 11 Jan 98 00:56:16 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 11 Jan 98 00:47:59 +0100 Subject: profiles Message-ID: Organization: Fidonet: UNIX-sysadm søger job To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On my non-root login, I have bash as shell. On login, first /etc/profile is executed. But then /.profile is executed! Why isn't /usr/home/leifn/.profile executed? Perhaps this is related: When I run netscape as myself, not root, netscape still refers to root-stuff: /root/.netscape/lock, /root/nsmail. I tried to edit all references in "edit" "preferences" to /usr/home/leifn/..., but then I didn't have write permission. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk