----- Original Message ---- From: Aveek Bhattacharya To: OpenSuse list Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:05:04 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Another (small) problem with 10.2rc1 Simon Roberts wrote:

It used to be that my .profile file would be executed on login, but this no longer appears to be the case.

Try creating a symlink to .profile called .bash_profile. (Since you spoke of bashrc, I assume that you are using bash.) -- Regards, Aveek Bhattacharya IIT Bombay ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, this helps, but .bash_profile is executed _twice_ on login! What's that about?? So, the upshot is, I'm still a little below par as far as extending my path and so forth goes. I can do it the "hard way" (test and set a new environment variable and if the variable wasn't previously set, then extend my path, otherwise not) but one might hope the "easy way" (a working invocation to .profile or .bash_profile that is called exactly once during login) would be available still. Can these behaviors be considered a bug? Or should I quit my whinging and mess with an environment variable? Cheers, Simon ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org