Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:08:03 +0100 From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /bin/sh does not read profile Message-ID: <20090304150803.GA30617@marge.bs.l>
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Hi,
from "man sh":
Invocation
[...] When first starting, the shell inspects
argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also consid-
ered a login shell. This is normally done automatically by the system
when the user first logs in. 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 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?
Thanks in advance,
Bertram
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Bertram Scharpf
Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
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