Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1[Where o' where does a User get their Environment?]

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Jan 20 15:41:54 UTC 2005


Once upon a time, James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> said:
> In single-user mode, what does that matter?
> 
> As I said, $HOME is not set before starting the shell, so the shell
> files (.bash_profile, .bashrc) are not read.  You really shouldn't have
> anything significant under root's home anyway.
> 
> -----James' reply-----
> 
> Actually, yes the $HOME variable is set when a shell is started.

Read what I said: "single-user mode".  I was not talking about doing an
"su" or "su -" or logging in directly as root.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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