From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 18 20:38:12 2002 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 BE12F37B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:38:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from andrew.brobus.net (ns1.brobus.net [24.129.14.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB7DB43E6E for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:38:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tamir@brobus.net) content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: bash .profile issues MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:40:13 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Message-ID: <985DF46E87E0C047A3670048DBCAD0556A48@andrew.brobus.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: prefetching port dependencies Thread-Index: AcKPf+miUCTOOgRjRkqMr91Jkq3AQAABUa9Q From: "Tamir Halperin" To: "FreeBSD" 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 Here's my .profile: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/root/dot.profile,v 1.20 1999/08/27 23:24:09 peter = Exp $ # PATH=3D/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/= X11R6/bin : export PATH HOME=3D/root export HOME TERM=3D${TERM:-cons25} export TERM PAGER=3Dmore export PAGER PS1=3D"\w#" alias 'lu =3D /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb' alias 'seti =3D cat /var/db/setiathome/state.sah | grep prog' alias 'dir =3D ls -Fl' ~ Questions: 1) My aliases don't work. Why? 2) When I make a change, let's say to the aliases, I don't know of any = other way for it to take immediate affect unless I log out and log back = in again. Is there a command approach to this? 3) Is there a good tutorial about environment settings and other issues = such as the ones I'm struggling with? TIA, Tamir --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 11/13/2002 =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message