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Today i saw that I can not use .bash_profile because my default shell is SH and not BASH!!!
Examples:
pinkbyte@users:~$ ps uxf
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
pinkbyte 5378 0.0 0.1 14528 1432 ? S 19:46 0:00 sshd: pinkbyte@pt
pinkbyte 5379 0.0 0.1 4348 1632 pts/6 Ss 19:46 0:00 \_ -sh
pinkbyte 5830 0.0 0.0 2592 828 pts/6 R+ 19:56 0:00 \_ ps uxf

pinkbyte@users:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep dekus
dekus:x:1001:1001:De Kus,,,:/home/dekus:/bin/bash

pinkbyte@users:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep pinkbyte
pinkbyte:x:1065:100::/home/pinkbyte:

My default shell is not defined. I want to have normal shell(/bin/bash). Can anybody(with access to /etc/passwd/ of course ) correct this problem?

Why don't you just use .profile? It does exactly the same thing except for the sh shell which doesn't actually exist anyway. We don't have sh anymore, it's just a symlink to bash.

Also, you can change it youself, see chsh.

Oh and for the record, /bin/sh would be normal not /bin/bash

Edit: dekus is right, should have been .profile, I put .bashrc by mistake :S

Tim wrote:It does exactly the same thing except for the sh shell which doesn't actually exist anyway. We don't have sh anymore, it's just a symlink to bash.

Not true, running /bin/bash via /bin/sh makes bash acting like sh, or at least diffrent. Go and enter '/bin/sh' and youl'll see that the symlink doesnt remove the difference . It obviously recognizes how it was started and acts a little diffrently. Obviously one of the diffrences is that it doesnt run .bash_profile .

Oh I just remember a little thing... try if it runs 'profile' or '.profile'

Also, you can change it youself, see chsh

pinkbyte@users:~$ chsh
You may not change the shell for pinkbyte.

Why don't you just use .profile? It does exactly the same thing except for the sh shell which doesn't actually exist anyway. We don't have sh anymore, it's just a symlink to bash.

But .bash_profile executes when i enter 'bash -l' and not when i log in.
.profile file works well, thank you, Tim.