Re: bash does not run startup files

[Pierre Gaston]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:42 PM, root <root@ghostwheel.llnl.gov> wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: linux-gnu - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.3 (Tikanga)
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib   -g -O2
> uname output: Linux ghostwheel.llnl.gov 2.6.28.7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 23 
> 11:37:50 PST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 10
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>        no matter how I invoke bash, it will not run any of the startup 
> scripts: /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc - this is either being 
> started by /bin/login or in an xterm session
>
> Repeat-By:
>        login with /etc/passwd specifying /bin/bash as shell
>        exec /bin/bash --login --interactive
>        xterm
>        xterm -e /bin/bash -l -i
>

It works for me, what makes you think that they are not loaded?

can you paste the output of:
strace -e trace=open bash -i -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION;exit'
and
strace -e trace=open bash -i -l -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION;exit'