Typically we interact with the Linux operating system through what is referred to as a shell interpreter. A common interpreter is the Bourne Again Shell, which people call by the catchy name of bash ...

One of the most common tasks I face is copying profile data among computers, in both Windows and Linux. And as you would expect, both operating systems handle the profile data very differently. In GNU ...

So, I have my beautiful new Gentoo install up & running on my workstation here, which is also dual-booting with Windows 2000 (games). I really wanted to find a way to use one profile between the two ...

I'm trying to get a number of variables setup on login and have put them in this file.<P>The user uses bash as it's default shell but .bash_profile dosn't seem to run on login.<P>What am I missing ...