Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:11:18 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/sh does not read profile Message-ID: <31137799.01236305475066.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> In-Reply-To: <20090306004003.99091e42.freebsd@edvax.de>
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>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.
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