[arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users

Heiko Baums lists at baums-on-web.de
Sun Mar 11 10:08:03 EDT 2012


Am Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:18:43 +0800
schrieb XeCycle <xecycle at gmail.com>:

> Aren't you supposed to edit ~/.profile by hand?

Isn't the correct file to set such environment variables locally
~/.bash_profile resp. ~/.bashrc?

For global settings it's /etc/profile or better a new file
in /etc/profile.d with the permissions 755.

Heiko


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