On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 11:40 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:36:05AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > there you go - I thought /bin/sh and /bin/bash were the same. It's clear > > that they are not because copying .bash_profile to .profile was just the > > ticket. > > > > I'm not sure if that is better than changing ingres user's shell > > to /bin/bash but at least I know why it wasn't working. > > If what you really want is bash, then you should change the shell to > bash. bash pretending to be sh will act differently sometimes to > maintain compatibility with sh, whereas bash being bash will always act > like bash. ---- well, I left it as /bin/sh and left the .profile as is and life is beautiful and I managed to solve an old problem that I had temp fixed - which was mostly apache related since the software has a java-based apache driven user interface and every time I tried to launch the apache daemon, it wouldn't have the user's environment variables which was worse when trying to shut it down. Thanks for the fish Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss