John Salmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > you did re-login after the changes did you? (i think "bash -l" also
> > behaves like a full re-llogin)
>
> Yes, I did. In fact, I also tried re-booting the system.
That's excessive. Reboots are only necessary when you update the
kernel and modules, or change hardware.
> Another thing, I tried to run ~/.bash_profile and got "\bash:
> /home/johns/.bash_profile: Permission denied" (johns is me). ls -al shows
> .bash_prfile access has no execute permission set.
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ ls -lF .profile .bash_profile .bashrc
/bin/ls: .bash_profile: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 keeling keeling 1158 2007-06-14 12:44 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 keeling keeling 1203 2008-01-05 10:03 .profile
Notice I have no .bash_profile, but I do have .profile, and neither of
those are executable. On startup, bash looks for .profile or
.bash_profile and runs it. Manually, try:
source ~/.bash_profile
or:
. ~/.bash_profile # that's a period/dot
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