BASH doesn´t read .profile i flogging into CDE-session

[Joakim Brosten]

Hi,

On our HP-UX 11.23 I´ve installed bash 2.05b, (from the incl. DVD´s). If I log in to the system using telnet, bash reads /etc/profile and ~/.profile but if I use the graphical CDE it seems like all I get is the default bash environment without the additions I have inkluded in my ~/.profile.
Have I missed something? Thanks for your help.

/J

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi J,

Could you check your $HOME/.dtprofile and look if the line DTSOURCEPROFILE=true is uncommented ?

regards,
Robert-Jan

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

Yes,

CDE doesn't read the .profile by default as well it shouldn't because any interactive commands in the .profile would hang the desktop.

THere are a few alternatives. Use .bashrc instead which gets read each time a new bash shell is started. Or, use the "-ls" flag to your terminal emulator e.g. xterm which also makes it a login shell and read .profile. You could put your environment stuff in $HOME/.dtprofile. FInally you could change DTSOURCEPROFILE=true in /usr/dt/config/sys.dtprofile

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

and check this thread.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1083912114825+28353475&threadId=65497

HTH,
Robert-Jan

[Joakim Brosten]

Hello again,

I tried to uncomment the line "DTSOURCEPROFILE=true " but it didn't help. But if after copied my "~/.profile" to ~/.bashrc it seems to work fine. The man-page says: "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists.", so I guess that a CDE-session is not handled like an interactive login shell.

Anyhow, thank you for the tip and the fast answer Robert-Jan.

Best regards: /Jocke

[Mike Stroyan]

The CDE login will source $HOME/.bash_profile if you set "DTSOURCEPROFILE=true". You can see the mechanism in the script "/usr/dt/bin/Xsession".