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.profile is not run on startup

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 9:58 am
by xpanta
Hi,

For some reason my ~/.profile script is not run after startup and I need to do a "source .profile" the first time I start a terminal.

How can I solve this?

(I have done a chmode 755 to my profile script).

This is my script:

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# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
	. "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/Dropbox/workspace/
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Re: .profile is not run on startup

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:50 pm
by Skrell
I also would like to know the answer to this as i'm having the same problem!

Re: .profile is not run on startup

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 3:44 pm
by BoscoBearbank
My ~/.profile file:

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# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
	. "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
and as for permissions:

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~$ dir -d .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 a a 675 May 18 07:06 .profile
$HOME/bin is the first field in $PATH, therefore I conclude ~/.profile is working. Do you have ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login files?