Re: .bash_profile and .bashrc not executing

On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:50 John Salmon wrote:

> I'm a new user to Debian Linux. I have the latest version loaded on a
> dedicated PC with all the default settings. I have added a ~/bin directory
> to my system. My .bash_profile and .bashrc files were the default files
> loaded during the install. However, my PATH remains unchanged when I log
> on even though the .bash_profile file has the lines to add my ~/bin
> directory. I can make the change manually after I've logged on and can
> execute files that are in that directory. Also, the aliases set in my
> .bashrc file don't work. As a check, I've set environment variables in
> both files and they return null with echo after logging on. I haven't
> tried re-installing the system from scratch.
>
> Any suggestions?

you did re-login after the changes did you? (i think "bash -l" also behaves like a full re-llogin)

hth
martin

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