From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:44:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00924 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:20:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06695 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:27:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA22691; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:58:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:58:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Leif Neland cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: profiles In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On 11 Jan 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > 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. 1. Do you su/login as root? 2. What is your home directory set to in the password file? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major