On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 01:10, Havoc Pennington wrote: [snip] > When a > shell finds out that it's a login shell, it does some special things > such as load ~/.bash_profile. I want to mention for completeness that the login initialization process is uglier than this. Due to backward compatibility and cruft, bash login shells look for three special files and execute the first one they find of: ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_login ~/.profile A default Red Hat installs a .bash_profile so it is not much of an issue, but other distros don't. Also, there are many other init files like ~/.bashrc (which gets called from .bash_profile on Red Hat), and /etc/profile (which executes all the scripts in /etc/profile.d/*.sh on Red Hat). Anyway, all the gory details can be found in "man bash" and tracing all the scripts starting from /etc/profile. A fun exercise! Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ We drive on this highway of fire Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
