From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 8 8:39:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF0037B401 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 08:39:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B162243F3F for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 08:39:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bassers@xs4all.nl) Received: from list1.xs4all.nl (list1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.52]) by smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id h28GdI4Y023333 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:39:18 +0100 (CET) Received: (from root@localhost) by list1.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA07851; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:39:17 +0100 (CET) From: "Bas Essers" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Via: news2mail at list1.xs4all.nl Subject: bash not automatically interactive Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:40:20 +0100 Message-ID: <3e6a1cb4$0$49109$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi i just installed bash2 from the ports collection and used "chsh" to make it my shell. and now when i log in i get bash but it doesn't run in interactive mode, only when i start another one with "bash -i", and that's also the only way to get bash to read ~/.bashrc. does anyone know what the problem is? should i create a different startup script or something? i don't have any standard .bashrc, /etc/login or .bash_login files. thanks bas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message