Question about Terminal

Don Christensen djc at cisco.com
Wed May 2 15:32:11 CEST 2007


Anders Lind wrote:
> Hello friends,
> 
> I have a question regarding Terminal, is it calling some other file
> then bash_profile when setting the bashprompt and where can I in that
> case change it
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Anders

I think that bash won't read the .bash_profile unless it's a login
shell.  You can probably configure Terminal to start the shell as
a login shell.  This might help if your problem is "the settings
in my .bash_profile are not being applied".

-Don

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com                    Cisco Systems, Austin, TX
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