Re: /etc/profile or $HOME/profile

googler wrote:
News wrote:

ehabaziz2001@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Is /etc/profile executed when any user login to the system ?

Only those users with sh, ksh or bash as their login shell. Then
$HOME/.profile gets processed (it gets more complex but that is the general
order.)


I have a similar question. I created an user account and then changed
its shell to bash (from sh). Everything is fine. Now I wanted to add
more directories to my PATH variable. So in ~/.profile, I added the
lines:

PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/bin:${PATH}
export PATH

After this I changed the permission of .profile to enable x mode and
ran (from $HOME) ./.profile . This _did not_ change the PATH variable
as was evident from "echo $PATH". So I put "echo $PATH" in .profile
just after setting PATH, and it displays the correct value. At this
point, I logged off and logged back in and saw that PATH has been set
correctly. Why isn't it changing on running ./.profile in the earlier
case?


Because ./.profile spawned a subprocess to execute .profile. The PATH environment was set in the suprocess and lost when the subprocess terminated. You CAN NOT alter the environment of a another process.

Try "source .profile" if the shell you are using supports it.
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