On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 11:30 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:21:45AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > No - I failed to state the obvious but the ingres user's shell
> > is /bin/sh
>
> IIRC, bash != sh, even when bash == sh ;)
>
> It's probably trying to find .profile rather than .bash_profile and
> that's the correct thing to do.
>
> If /bin/sh is really an invocation of bash, then details of when it
> reads which file are detailed in the bash docs. Behavior also changes
> for login shell vs. non-login shell.
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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.
Thanks
Craig
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