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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
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MDM writes:
> I have completed installing FreeBSD 4.4-Lite from the Walnut Creek 2.1.5
> CD-Rom; there are three problems that I need some help with.

Mail to support is currently being forwarded to
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.  You'll probably get better responses
by sending to that list.

> 3.  I "chsh"ed the root shell to Bash (and also of my normal account), but
> paths and aliases written in the either the /root/.bashrc ( or the
> /usr/home/myhome/.bashrc) do not get "accessed" or read or "used".  What's
> up?

You need a .bash_profile as well for a login shell.  To quote the man
page:

       When bash is invoked as a login shell, it first reads  and
       executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file
       exists.   After  reading   that   file,   it   looks   for
       ~/.bash_profile,  ~/.bash_login,  and  ~/.profile, in that
       order, and reads and executes commands from the first  one
       that  exists  and is readable.  The --noprofile option may
       be used when the shell is started to inhibit  this  behav-
       ior.

       When an interactive shell that is not  a  login  shell  is
       started,  bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc,
       if that file exists.  This may be inhibited by  using  the
       --norc  option.   The --rcfile file option will force bash
       to  read  and  execute  commands  from  file  instead   of
       ~/.bashrc.

My .bash_profile contains simply:

  if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc; fi

Thinking about it, it would seem logical just to link them together.

Greg