/etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile are not being read

[Vram]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:16 +0900, janne wrote:
> A constant source of frustration is that neither /etc/profile, nor
> ~/.bash_profile are being read, and thus I can't use these for adding
> stuff to my PATH, or other things.
> 
> Anybody has a solution to this? Is this a real bug, or is there some
> other, prefferred way to do stuff like that?
> 
> And in any case, should'nt these files be honoured in any case, seeing
> as how they are standard on other systems?
> 
> 

Well.....

I think I would put stuff in 
.bashrc

HTH

Vram

PS

It is my understanding that .bash_profile is read on login