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tamr · 06-27-2015, 09:25 PM

Thanks, knc1. Yeah, I know Kindle is running ash and that it'll run /etc/profile, and (on the Kindle) /var/tmp/root/.profile. The man pages I found for it weren't geared toward embedded Linux with a read-only rootfs. Based on your reply, am I correct that the Kindle's BusyBox ash has no capability to have something like .profile run off of /mnt/us when I login? That is, I do need to modify /etc/profile after all?

06-27-2015, 09:25 PM	#3
tamr Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: Kindle 3w	Thanks, knc1. Yeah, I know Kindle is running ash and that it'll run /etc/profile, and (on the Kindle) /var/tmp/root/.profile. The man pages I found for it weren't geared toward embedded Linux with a read-only rootfs. Based on your reply, am I correct that the Kindle's BusyBox ash has no capability to have something like .profile run off of /mnt/us when I login? That is, I do need to modify /etc/profile after all?