[wplug] perl and .bash_profile ?

[Doug Green]

Hi-

I have two questions this morning...I'm running RH7.1...

1) when I open a terminal and su, I cannot execute adsl-start without
giving the full pathname (ie: /usr/sbin/adsl-start). However, /usr/sbin
is in my path under my root account's .bash_profile. Obviously, this is
not a big deal, but I was wondering why it's doing that.

2) I have been trying to compile and install bp, a perl bibliography
package (available at www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/bp/). It
complains of my @INC variable not being set, among other things. What
are these variables, how do I set them, and more importantly, where can
I learn about this stuff (do I need to learn perl to use the
packages??)? Does anyone else use bp? I had it working on my Mandrake
7.2 system, and I can't remember what magic catch-phrase made it work. 

As ususal, all help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Doug


PS- I lied, here's a third question: On my laptop, hitting ctrl-alt-F1
(or F2 or...) doesn't give me a login screen! Using the SAME distro
(identical configuration) on my desktop computer, it DOES give me a user
login screen... weird, huh? Is this normal for laptop intalls??