bash_profile 没有正常工作

Question

Hi Im running linux angstrom distribution on a remote device, I added.bash_profile and.bashrc to /home/root since they didn't exist and I wrote this in them

PATH=/opt/qt-arm/lib:$PATH 
export PATH

But now when I login to this device and type $PATH I don't see the newly added path...Any Ideas??

Answer 1

I added.bash_profile and.bashrc to /home/root since...

Look in /etc/passwd to check whether /home/root is actully root's home directory. On most linux distributions, it is just /root , not /home/root .

Update in response to comments:

.bash_profile and .bashrc are only inspected if the user's shell is bash . You can see what root's shell is in /etc/passwd .

Answer 2

Usually the home directory of the root account is /root (not in /home/root/ ).