Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 09:03:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: aharpham@cnweb.com (Allen D. Harpham) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PATH Message-ID: <199512130803.JAA21128@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9512122023.A16622-0100000@nebland.cnweb.com> from "Allen D. Harpham" at Dec 12, 95 08:34:03 pm
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As Allen D. Harpham wrote: > > I have setup some menus in the past using the bash shell. Then I set > the default shell in the passwd file to /usr/bin/menu. > > This has always worked fine under Linux. But under FreeBSD, the PATH > doesn't seem to get read from the .profile file. What's different > between the two systems? $HOME/.profile is only being sucked in by /bin/sh when starting. So it's apparent that this would become a useless file for any login `shell' != /bin/sh (or bash, or ksh). You most likely didn't notice it's non-existing effect on Linux since the default PATH might be different anyway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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