On Wednesday 05 June 2002 02:11, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 00:09:42 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ...
> > Yes -- the problem is the user's .profile doesn't source the system
> > one.  It isn't automagically sourced.
>
> It should be. From the bash man page:
>
>     When  bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as
>     a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it  first
>     reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if
>     that file exists.

OK, I don't know if this was already said, but I have to include

if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then
  . /etc/profile
fi

in the users .profile to have changes there become effective. Bug?

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