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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 22:15:29 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: bash question
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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.
> 
> Ideas???
> 
> Charles Sprickman
> spork@super-g.com
> ---- 

'.bashrc' is for non-login shells. '.bash_profile' is for logins. 
'.bashrc' won't be read for a login shell.

BUT... You said you named it '.profile'?? '.profile' should be read by
bash. Curious.

>From the man

	When bash is invoked as an  interactive  login  shell,  it
       first  reads and executes commands from the file /etc/pro-
       file, 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 behavior. 

And also

	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.

So .bashrc works great in an xterm but not in a login shell.

I hope this helps.

 VVVVVVV
/ 0\ / 0\  Have fun,
     )	   Jason Wells	
)-------(  Wannabe Sysadmin
 \_____/


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