Thanks for the replies! On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:53:16AM +0100, Armin M. Warda wrote: > On Thursday 19 January 2006 05:36, Tom Tobin wrote: > > On 1/18/06, Stefan Boresch <stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote: > > > I have also tried putting cd /home/user into .profile and .ashrc > > > (which is in the ENV via .profile), but all this changes nothing. > > > > That's odd; I inserted "cd $HOME" into my ENV file, and it works. > > Are you certain ENV is set? I know that ENV was not set by default > > for me until I added it to my .profile. > It works now. .profile contains export ENV="$HOME/.ashrc" and .ashrc contains cd $HOME both files are in /home/user and have -rw-r--r-- permissions. I am positive that I tried something which I consider equivalent yesterday (same .ashrc, but ENV=$HOME/.ashrc; export ENV in .profile) which did not work (or I was just too tired to look at the path in the prompt correctly ...) My apologies and thanks for the replies which made me try again ;-) Stefan -- Stefan Boresch Institute for Biomolecular Structural Chemistry University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17 A-1090 Vienna, Austria Phone: -43-1-427752715 Fax: -43-1-427752790
