Where to put profile files?

Tue Jul 18 12:32:00 GMT 2000

On 2000年7月18日 14:28:21 -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>OK, maybe I missed something in your post but I didn't get the impression
>that you knew where the "profile" file should be in order to have it work.

Well, I decided I didn't know where it ought to go when it didn't seem to be working 
properly.
>This is why I stated where it should be so there would be no confusion.
>Perhaps the confusion was on my side.

Well, I know for certain that I'm confused. But I can only speak for myself in this 
case <g>.
>> > If you're not sure which Windows path corresponds to /, 
>> >look at the output of the mount command. It will tell you.
>>>>Well, since mount reports this for device and directory:
>> j:\prg\cygwin /
>> that leads me to believe that 
>> j:\prg\cygwin\etc\profile 
>> ought to be what works for me. 
>>>I agree.
>>>>However, I've put stuff in the profile file in that path and it didn't have any effect. 
Copied that file to be .bashrc 
>>file in my HOME directory and that same alias statement then worked in .bashrc.
>>>Hm, that's interesting. I have no problems with this. Could be a 
>text/binary file thing but it doesn't sound like it (necessarily) if the
>same thing works in .bashrc. Perhaps the best thing to do is post your
>cygcheck output. Your problem is most likely a configuration issue but
>its not obvious from the information you've given so far.

Here it is:
bash-2.04$ cygcheck bash
Found: j:\prg\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
j:\prg\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
 j:\prg\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
 C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
 C:\WINNT\System32\ntdll.dll
 C:\WINNT\System32\USER32.dll
 C:\WINNT\System32\GDI32.dll
 C:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.dll
 C:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.dll
>>>>Can one not do an alias statement in profile? 
>>>Never tried it but I can't imagine why that would be the case.

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