From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 10:29:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17831 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:29:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17822 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:29:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01329; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:28:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:28:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: spork cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Did you remember to change your login shell? Did you add bash to /etc/shells? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message