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Renat Golubchyk wrote: |
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> That's wrong. Quote: |
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> "When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- |
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> active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- |
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> mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading |
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> that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, |
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> in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that |
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> exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the |
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> shell is started to inhibit this behavior." |
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> Notice "the first one that exists and is readable". |
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>> If "~/.bash_profile" doesn't exist, then "~/.bashrc" won't be sourced |
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>> whether it exists or not. |
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> Wrong again. Two paragraphs down in the man page: |
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> "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash |
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> reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists." |
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> In this case ~/.bashrc is sourced directly. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Renat |
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Rats. I checked the source and you're right. My problem domain is |
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smaller than I thought but still valid, I think. Basically the problem |
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is only with interactive login shells and /root. Not *broken*, per se: |
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just contrary to recommended practice. The Bash documentation |
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*recommends* that a ~/.bash_profile exists so that ~/.bashrc can be made |
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to be sourced for login shells and codifies its recommendation by |
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putting a template .bash_profile in /etc/skel. |
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- John |
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