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Re: A .profile puzzle

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Gene Heskett wrote: 
> 
> The local electrical system, while better than Haiti's is getting to be a 
> nuisance with 5 second power failures about weekly, or is that weakly?

That's a great case for a UPS...

> 1. Before the latest failure I could do all this as me because the mount 
> point for the card is in my home directory, I own it all. And didn't 
> have to be root to do any of it.  This was not fixed by a 2nd reboot.

Are you mounting via /etc/fstab? If so, show us the line.


> 2. and another pesky thing is starting a konsole to do work, needs a 
> $PATH modification that we used to put in ~.profile. But opening a 
> terminal hasn't called a ". .profile" since about jessie.  So thats 
> another PITA.
> 
> So, what has replaced .profile as the function for such as that in recent 
> releases?

I'm guessing that your shell is /bin/sh. That used to be bash,
but now it's dash.

You could make your own shell bash -- just run chsh and log out,
then come back in again.

Note that .profile is supposed to be read only by a login
shell, whereas .bashrc will be read by every interactive shell.
Here's the chunk of man bash:

       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.
 After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login,
 and ~/.profile, in that or der, and reads and executes commands from the
 first one that exists and is readable.  The --noprofile option may be
 used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
 
        When an interactive login shell exits, or a non-interactive
 login shell executes the exit builtin command, bash reads and executes
 commands from the file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.
 
        When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started,
 bash reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if
 these files exist.  This may be inhibited by using the --norc option.
 The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute commands
 from file instead of /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc.

        When bash is started non-interactively, to run a shell script,
 for example, it looks for the variable BASH_ENV in the environment,
 expands its value if it appears there, and uses the expanded value
 as the name of a file to read and execute.  Bash behaves as if the
 following command were executed: if [ -n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then .
 "$BASH_ENV"; fi but the value of the PATH variable is not used to search
 for the filename.


-dsr-

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A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 18:20 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-10-17 18:40 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 19:30 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-17 19:40 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-22 17:00 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-17 20:10 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 20:30 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-10-17 19:00 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 20:20 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-17 21:50 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 23:00 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-10-17 23:20 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-18 02:40 +0200
            Re: A .profile puzzle Douglas McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2021-10-18 03:20 +0200
              Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 06:00 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-18 05:20 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2021-10-18 07:30 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 07:50 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-18 13:20 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 15:00 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-18 15:50 +0200
            Re: A .profile puzzle David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-18 18:20 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-10-24 04:10 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-24 05:30 +0200

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