Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:28:23 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> To: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> Cc: Raantje <dodgy@dds.nl>, Archimedes <pstanfield@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Subject: Re: I may be new....but. Message-ID: <20000512002823.A2117@student.csd.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000511131619.tw@ettnet.se>; from tw@ettnet.se on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 01:16:19PM %2B0200 References: <NEBBKAJLILFLCCLCKCBOEEALCAAA.dodgy@dds.nl> <XFMail.000511131619.tw@ettnet.se>
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On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 01:16:19PM +0200, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > > to change to bash permanently i do the following: > > chsh > > Change the SHELL to /bin/bash or where ever you installed the binary > > Thanks Rano, > I did this, and it worked very well. But I want to set some aliases. > In the consol it works, but starting afterstep, it doesn't work at all > in the xterm. Is afterstep or/and xterm readning another file than the > consol (.profile or .bash_profile)? > Hope You'll know, > Thomas Bash only read .bash_profile if it is a login shell. In non-login shells (which is usually the case in xterm) it reads .bashrc instead. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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