On Sun 20 Apr 2025 at 23:55:22 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: > On Sunday, 20-04-2025 at 01:12 [email protected] wrote: > > Debian 12 here, obtained by upgrading Debian 11. > > > > In https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles the sixth paragraph states, "You > > should therefore always have command source ~/.bashrc at the end of > > your .bash_profile in order to force it to be read by a login shell." > > > > # ls ~/.bash_profile > > ls: cannot access '/home/root/.bash_profile': No such file or directory > > Please excuse my ignorance, but how did you manage to get the folder > "/home/root/" when running "ls ~/.bash_profile" as root? > > To my knowledge root's home directory should be /root, not /home/root. > > For me: > # ls ~/.bash_profile > /root/.bash_profile > > Did you create a user by the name "root" ?
To save a rehash, see the thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/02/msg00035.html Cheers, David.
