Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:12:24 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash not automatically interactive Message-ID: <20030308171224.GA75767@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <3e6a1cb4$0$49109$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> References: <3e6a1cb4$0$49109$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>
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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:40:20PM +0100, Bas Essers wrote:
> 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
That's normal. When bash(1) is started as a login shell, it reads the
first one out of ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile it can
find. Otherwise, for non-login shells it reads ~/.bashrc
If you want ~/.bashrc to be read for all shells, you need to add
something like the following to ~/.bash_login:
if [ -f ${HOME}/.bashrc ] ; then
. ${HOME}/.bashrc
fi
Cheers,
Matthew
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