I've just done a fresh netinst of Wheezy and want to proceed with my personal configuring in a way that is not fighting with the Debian view of how things should be done. I've used Debian since Potato, I think, but have always hacked things until they seemed to be working. Now, I want to try to do things in the way the developers had in mind when they built the install CD images.
I see the file ~/.profile . It contains code that tests for the existence of ~/bin/ and adds it to $PATH , if it exists. But it doesn't 'work'. After I have created my ~/bin/. and filled it with some scripts, and rebooted, there is still no mention of ~/bin/ in $PATH . Why? When does ~/.profile actually get invoked? Is there some part of the boot process that must be configured in order to invoke it? I used the CD that installs Xfce for i386 on an older HP tower. Not sure what further details are necessary to diagnose this. Please ask specific questions if I have left something needed out. as always, Thanks and Cheers -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131209191553.ga4...@big.lan.gnu
