Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:36:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash question Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980211093102.18904C-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210224708.15623C-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, spork wrote: > I'm stumped. I just turned one of my home machines into a dual-booter, > and one of the things I've installed is bash. I've done this a hundred > times, and sticking a .bashrc in my homedir has been how I get bash to do > what I wish... For some reason, it's not being read at login. If I > source it, it works. I also tried naming it .profile. According to the > manpage .bashrc is correct. Perms look OK, readable by anyone. > > Ideas??? .bash_profile or .profile are read when starting a login shell and .bashrc is read when starting a non-login shell. I don't know why renaming to .profile didn't work. It should. Did you perhaps change your X settings such that xterms are login shells by default? In any event, a lot of people always want the non-login stuff to be avail, so you might try adding the following to the ned of your .bash_profile: [ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc WHen debugging a problem like this, I often find it usefuil to observe exactly when a particular config file is being read. Try adding a line like the following to each of your dot-files: echo $0:.bash_profile:$- Replace .bash_profile with the proper file name. $- is the set of shell options in effect, e.g. interactive, etc. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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