[ale] how to get bash to run .bash_profile?

[Christopher Bergeron]

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Well, here's the strange thing: on my distro it still doesn't work.  My 
[relevant] inittab line(s) read:

c1:12345:respawn:/bin/bash --login -i < /dev/tty1 1>/dev/tty1 2>/dev/tty1
c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

And when I ssh into the box it executes the .bash_profile.  However, 
when I boot the box the first console loads bash, but doesn't load the 
.bash_profile.  

So, I'm effectively still stumped on this.  I've scoured the man pages, 
but I still can't figure this out!

More help is greatly appreciated (as always) -
CB



da Black Baron wrote:

|Ooops.  Mybad.  I've just never seen the file in that format before.
|Sorry.  :-)
|
|On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 23:30, John Wells wrote:
|
|>Nope.  Shouldn't.
|>
|>Here's an excerpt from `man bash`:
|>
|>When  bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
|>non&#8208;inter&#8208;
|>       active shell with the &#8722;&#8722;login option, it first reads
|>and executes  com&#8208;
|>       mands  from  the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.  After
|>reading
|>       that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and
|>~/.profile,
|>       in  that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one
|>that
|>       exists and is readable.  The &#8722;&#8722;noprofile option may be
|>used  when  the
|>       shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
|>
|>
|>John
|>
|>da Black Baron said:
|>
|>>You want to write a .bashrc file and a .profile file.  Bash will ingore
|>>something named .bash_profile... :-)
|>>
|>>On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 20:55, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
|>>
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|>>>Hey guys, how do I get bash to run .bash_profile?  I'm looking at my
|>>>startup, and I'm trying to figure out why when I set my inittab to
|>>>load:  /bin/bash instead of a "getty".  When it spawn's by bash
|>>>session,  it doesn't load my .bash_profile.  Is there a way I can load
|>>>a bash  shell and have it subsequently execute my .bash_profile?
|>>>
|>>>Alternatively, is there a way to get a getty to log in automatically
|>>>(on  slackware!).  For some reason, I can't get slackware to use the
|>>>mingetty+autologin patch/binary.  I was able to get it to work on
|>>>RhAT,  but not on Slack8.
|>>>
|>>>Preferably, I'd like to skip "getty" altogether...
|>>>
|>>>
|>>>Thanks!
|>>>- -CB
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