From: weiku@utkux.utcc.utk.edu (Wei Ku) Subject: Re: /etc/profile ignored; other strangeness 28 Jan 1998 19:53:23 -0800 Message-ID: <001101bd2c25$e2fee690$3916a980.cygnus.gnu-win32@wku1.utk.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Tim Fisher" Cc: -----Original Message----- From: Tim Fisher To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 5:05 AM Subject: /etc/profile ignored; other strangeness >I have three questions, but they're all sort of related so here goes: > >1) Seems like bash ignores /etc/profile, so I have to explicitly source it from >the /etc/bashrc file. I don't have to do this in Linux. Is this by design, or >am I doing something wrong here? > Only the login shell of bash read the profile. When invoke bash, mke it a log in shell by: bash -login >2) My PS1 variable is set to PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " but when bash first starts >up, the \W defaults to nil. It will update only if I change directories, and >then I get some strange behavior. This occurs only after first starting up >bash. After 'cd'ing around a bit, it settles down: > >[Administrator@CALIBAN ]$ cd usr >[Administrator@CALIBAN usr]$ pwd >./usr >[Administrator@CALIBAN usr]$ cd incoming >[Administrator@CALIBAN /incoming]$ pwd >/incoming >[Administrator@CALIBAN /incoming]$ cd /usr >[Administrator@CALIBAN /usr]$ cd incoming >[Administrator@CALIBAN incoming]$ pwd >/usr/incoming >[Administrator@CALIBAN incoming]$ > I tried this and it workd: PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' >BTW, I have two partitions, one is mounted on /usr, the other on /. Both >filesystems have a root directory called `incoming', so if my current directory >is /usr, then a `cd incoming' should get me to /usr/incoming, not /incoming. >What is going on here? > Define HOME in file .bash_profile ( or profile ). ex: export HOME=/usr/Administrator then use cd to go to home directory: cd you will be OK. >--Tim Fisher > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". Wei Ku - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".