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From:	Gerrit Haase <gerrit DOT haase AT gmail DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:02:04 +0100
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Subject:	Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?
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2016-03-15 14:44 GMT+01:00 Ken Brown wrote:
> On 3/15/2016 8:36 AM, Gerrit Haase wrote:
>>
>> Back then there was some postinstallation script which was creating
>> basic files like /etc/profile and other basic things were created with
>> the first login, like/home/<user> directory, including basic files
>> there.
>
>
> That's still the case.  The relevant postinstall script is
> /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.  You might check /var/log/setup.log
> and/or /var/log/setup.log.full to see if you can tell why it failed.  Or try
> running it manually.
>
> Ken


Many thanks Ken, that helped me out. Why isn't this mentioned in the FAQ?

Just need to figure out now, why it is not running automatically.

Regards,
Gerrit

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