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From: Icarus Sparry <i.sparry...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: .bash_profile modification
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:51:09 -0700, ritchie31 wrote:

> Hello Forum.
> I modified my .bash_profile by adding a welcome message and showing me
> the data time as I saw in an example.
> 
> 
> # .bash_profile
> 
> 
> # This only runs on user login echo ""
> echo -n "Welcome to Linux, "; whoami echo ""
> echo -n "Today is "; date "+%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S"
> echo ""
> cal
> 
> # This loads in the configuration in .bashrc # Put all configuration
> there!
> 
> 
> # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
>         . ~/.bashrc
> fi
> 
> # User specific environment and startup programs
> 
> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin
> 
> export PATH
> 
> 
> However every time I start the terminal It does not show me the messages
> I configured on it.
> Is it anything wrong on it?. I changed the attributes to chmod 777
> .bash_profile
> 
> Thanks

The most likely reason is that your "terminal" is not announcing that it
is a "login" window.

If you read the manual for bash, you will see it reads different files
depending on how it is invoked.

Try running
	xterm -ls
or
	gnome-terminal -e 'bash --login'

If you are using gnome-terminal, then you can change the preferences
associated with a profile to say it should be considered a login window.