[klug] Re: [Ilugc] Difference between bashrc and bash_profile
- From: binand@xxxxxxxxx (Binand Sethumadhavan)
- Date: Thu Mar 3 09:46:26 2005
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:40:54 +0530, Antony Paul <antonypaul24@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
so what is /etc/profile for ? I a distro (RHL or MDK) I edited
/etc/profile to set environment variables but these variables were not
present when I logged in as root all other users get the env
variables.
From bash's manpage:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-
active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com-
mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.
I'd recommend anyone with doubts on the order bash processes its
various startup files to read the bash manpage (specifically, the
section called INVOCATION).
Binand
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