X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: mjD.OBqswBAPbVUxYJaYPvc61jLEnpq8VnBwJGdbEJOPA9xw Message-ID: <4D56B731.3020300@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:37:05 +0000 From: Greg Chicares User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.7: bash --login does not read my ~/.profile References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 2011-02-12 16:27Z, Paul Cantalupo wrote: > > Recently I installed Cygwin on an XP computer at home. But when I > execute Cygwin.bat (contents below), the bash shell does not read my > ~/.profile (contents below). 'info bash' says: 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. so perhaps you have one of those other files in your home directory? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple