Debian ignores /etc/profile

[Andrew Hammond]

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Oliver Meyn wrote:
| Hi TLUGgers,
|
| I recently upgraded my 2 months out of date debian unstable system and
| now it appears to have stopped reading /etc/profile on login by normal
| users.  Root seems to pick up the environment variables set in there but
| no sign of them for lusers (and the file is a+r).  Any ideas on how
| debian normally incorporates /etc/profile in startup/login, and why it
| might have broken for me?

Well, assuming you're using bash (the default shell) the man page says:

"When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and
executes commands 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 --noprofile option may be
used when the shell is started to inhibit  this  behavior."

I'd guess that you need to a+x it as well.

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