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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 12:07:56 +0800
To: David Powers <wizlord@swbell.net>, rene@xs4all.nl,
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From: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>
Subject: RE: .bash_profile not executed when su-ing?
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bash would use .profile only in home directory if  both .bash_profile and 
.bash_login are not exist . You may man bash to get more information about 
how does bash work .


At 08:38 PM 11/7/01 -0600, David Powers wrote:
>If you mean that when you su to root you do not get root's environment you
>need to do a su -
>I'm also not sure about abash but bash uses .profile
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kelvin Ng Chee
>Hoong
>Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 7:14 PM
>To: rene@xs4all.nl; questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: .bash_profile not executed when su-ing?
>
>
>Try to put all statement onto non-interactive script . - .bashrc
>
>
>
>At 12:19 PM 11/7/01 +0100, rene@xs4all.nl wrote:
> >Hi. I am using abash as my dfault shell, but when su-ing to another account
> >(root) it does not seem to execute ~/.bash_profile. Is htere any way to
> >remedy this?
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