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[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Sep 16, Kenneth Porter did say:

> I have it identically defined in both ~/.bash_profile and ~root/.bash_profile.
> That's what's mysterious. The variable loses my mortal definition if I neglect
> to use -l on su. (And of course gets root's definition if use -l.) I'm
> suspecting that some "helpful" script is cleaning the environment when I su,
> presumably as a security measure.

Hmmnnn of course you know the ~/.bash_profile is only used for "login" shells.

An extract from a "man bash" says:

- ->     When an interactive shell that is not a login shell  is  started,  bash
- ->     reads  and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists.  This
- ->     may be inhibited by using the --norc option.  The --rcfile file  option
- ->     will  force  bash  to  read  and  execute commands from file instead of
- ->     ~/.bashrc.
- ->
- ->     When bash is started non-interactively, to  run  a  shell  script,  for
- ->     example, it looks for the variable BASH_ENV in the environment, expands
- ->     its value if it appears there, and uses the expanded value as the  name
- ->     of  a  file to read and execute.  Bash behaves as if the following com-
- ->     mand were executed:
- ->            if [ -n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then . "$BASH_ENV"; fi
- ->     but the value of the PATH variable is not used to search for  the  file
- ->     name.


A better place for it might be in your ~/.bashrc file and in what ever
file you set BASH_ENV to.


Note: If your ~/.bash_profile has something like this in it:

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

Then the ~/.bashrc settings would also be applied to login shells.

Hope this helps...

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