From: mchase@ix.netcom.com (Michael A. Chase) Subject: Re: Bash Environment (Was: Bash history?) 19 Sep 1997 07:13:59 -0700 Message-ID: <199709191351.IAA03407.cygnus.gnu-win32@dfw-ix1.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Wei Ku" , I knew that. Unfortunately, I also 'knew' that the first shell would mystically know it was the login shell. I added -login to my startup commands and /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile now get called automatically. Sadly, the environment variables (except for $PATH) are still not getting converted until I do it in /etc/profile. Thanks, Mac :}) -----Original Message----- From: Wei Ku To: Michael A. Chase ; gnu-win32@cygnus.com Date: Tuesday, September 16, 1997 21:51 Subject: Re: Bash Environment (Was: Bash history?) > Only the login shell will read the .bash_profile. To run bash as a login >shell try: >bash -login - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".