Hope you are doing good. I have problem need you guys help .
i tried to modify my .profile
i was using
and i have alias ( alias e='exit' )as well
now wanna use bash as having good options , and modified as below
here i have three problems .
1. when i am in bash mode , with one exit i am unable to . Need to give two exits to go out from server to putty
2. date is not changing , the date is showing as the same when i logged in
3. if 1st point fails , then i want to have two diff options where the .profile should work for bash and non bash modes .
Hope my problem is clear to you guys and can a resolution ASAP .
Note : this is for a monitoring tool which need to use my ID .
1. This is normal. You run bash as another application. Must be terminated to get back to the main shell.
You can try this in .profile:
This should replace the primary login-shell by /bin/bash.
Safer is to change your login shell (in /etc/passwd), e.g. with command
2. use stronger quoting so evaluation can happen later:
Probably the same, and certainly more efficient is to leave PROMPT_COMMAND unset and instead use
3. when bash finds .bash_profile it takes this instead of .profile. If necessary (e.g. becomes appropriate when the login shell was changed to /bin/bash) you can do
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 04-11-2013 at 02:51 PM..
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Thanks for response of my first question. there is my second quesiton why i have local.profile instead of .profile file ?
my all files in pwd shoes local. before any file.
is anybody can tell me about that ?
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