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Re: [Help-bash] Non-interactive login shell does not use /etc/profile
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] Non-interactive login shell does not use /etc/profile |
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Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:49:07 -0500 |
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On 1/13/17 9:48 AM, John Lane wrote:
> If you start a bash non-interactive login shell using the leading hyphen
> method then the /etc/profile is not used. It is used if the -l option is
> used or if the hyphen method is used with an interactive shell.
This is a compile-time option controlled by a define in config-top.h:
NON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS. It's not defined by default. Some vendors
change the default.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/