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From: iwarner@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk (Ivan Warner,G44 SSTF,6632,)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: who runs .profile?
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Date: 31 Jul 89 10:17:09 GMT
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From article <207@althea.UUCP>, by jsb@althea.UUCP (Clever Hans):
 
! I'm running A/UX and a strange thing (tm) is happening.  When I login
! (my login shell is ksh) my .profile is not being run.  And when I run
! mail, my .mailrc isn't being run.  $HOME is correctly set to my home
! directory, I own my .* files and they have read permission.  Is it
! my breath?

	They will probably need execute permission also.