From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 15:28:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF4037BD2D for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 15:28:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:35076 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Fri, 12 May 2000 00:28:26 +0200 Received: (qmail 2146 invoked by uid 1001); 11 May 2000 22:28:23 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:28:23 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Thomas Widlundh Cc: Raantje , Archimedes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Kent Stewart Subject: Re: I may be new....but. Message-ID: <20000512002823.A2117@student.csd.uu.se> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from tw@ettnet.se on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 01:16:19PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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