I have installed Slackware 12.2 and have found that my ~/.bash_profile file doesn't run or even work when I run it manually. .bash_profile runs just fine in root but not in any user space I create and my home directory is a symbolic link to another partition an that .bash_profile file runs just fine with 12.1.

BASH itself seem to run and the individual commands work if I copy and paste them into a shell and run them that way but when I log on to my user account .bash_profile doesn't run.

Also, /etc/kde/kdm/Xsession has been changed and Patrick left the original named Xsession.orig which doesn't cause .bash_profile to run ether.

I don't know how you're creating the users or starting the shell, so these are guesses:

Have you checked that the users' shell is /bin/bash?

Also, are you logging in at a console, so the shell is being started as a login shell? If your default run level is 4 and you sign in at a gui, most of the terminals start non-login shells so ~/.bash_profile won't be run.

Yep, that's it. I feel so stupid.


Thanks

I've done plenty worse than that