[SunRescue] Bash/Sol7

Cyrus M. Reed reedc at cc.wwu.edu
Sun Apr 23 10:58:27 CDT 2000


Doh!  Sorry about the 160 character line wrapping...  blast it!  Must
learn to change settings back after tinkering.

-Cyrus

"Cyrus M. Reed" wrote:
> 
> You want .bash_profile, I think (though .bashrc should work for any shell started by the user, hmmm).  Also, you don't want "set PATH=/blah/blah:", you want
> just "PATH=/blah/blah:", IIRC (looking in mine).  According to the man page I'm looking at here (which is Sol 2.5, Bash 2.x) the system will first read from
> /etc/profile, then ~/.bash_profile , ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile, in that order.  So I think it's a config file problem with the "set" in there, rather than
> having the wrong filename.  Hope that helps...
> 
> -Cyrus
> 
> Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Maarten Deen [mailto:mdeen at xs4all.nl]
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 10:29 AM
> > > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Bash/Sol7
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I still seem to be having trouble getting any environmental
> > > settings changed
> > > > on a per-user basis using Solaris7 and BASH.  I've tried
> > > .bashrc, .profile,
> > > > .dtprofile, with lots of different things inside the first
> > > two, and adding a
> > >
> > > Try putting it in .bash_login. That'll work better.
> >
> > Any more ideas for filenames?  :-)  Now I've got .bashrc, .profile,
> > .bash_login, none of which change the bloody PATH!  So, more ideas?
> >         Greg
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