.profile strange behaviour

[markuscj]

I need a user to run a script that opens a menu when they log in, so added it to their .profile - /home/user/script, but the menu just hangs for ages and when it does come up it doesn't work properly.

If /home/user/script is not added to the users .profile, the user can run the script normally with no problem.

After further investigation it turns out anything that is added to anybodies .profile on this particular box get's run twice! For instance, just adding 'date' to the .profile will show date/time twice when you log in.

Is this an environment problem? I can't see anything obvious. Ideas anybody?

 

[KenCunningham]

Is there anything in /etc/profile to cause this?

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[RodKnowlton]

Can you post the contents of the offending .profile?

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[markuscj]

Thanks guys, it's been solved now.

It was in fact an entry in /etc/environment but was missed on the first look. There was an entry in there:

ENV=$HOME/.profile

so .profile for all users was effectively being executed twice.

Thanks anyway