Am 26.11.2008 um 16:00 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:

Uhm, you can't just rename them. They have different syntax. Please just delete your .bashrc .profile .bash_profile if that's really what you did.

*I* would not do such things. When I wrote "rename" I meant to give the files names that aren't recognised (and used) by the shell interpreters. My best assumption is that Tiger's /usr/bin/login tool behaves differently that Leopard's one. The manual page states: Immediately after logging a user in, login displays the system copyright notice, the date and time the user last logged in, the message of the day as well as other information. If the file ``.hushlogin'' exists in the user's home directory, all of these messages are suppressed. This is to simplify logins for non-human users, such as uucp(1). Login then records an entry in the wtmp(5) and utmp(5) files and executes the user's command interpreter. So to me it seems a different approach is necessary ... -- Greetings Pete A morning without coffee is like something without something else.