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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc not getting sourced at login
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:26:04
Message-Id: 200608241942.37892.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc not getting sourced at login by Neil Bothwick
1 On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:04, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:44:28 -0700, gentuxx wrote:
4 > > I'm having an issue with root's .bashrc not getting sourced at
5 > > login.
6 >
7 > From man bash:
8 >
9 > "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
10 > reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists."
11 >
12 > .bash_profile is read for a login shell.
13
14 Yes, the usual way around this is to put
15
16 [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
17
18 at the beginning of .bash_profile.
19
20 The files in /etc/skel use this solution, but gentoo installation does
21 not create those files for user root by default, you have to copy them
22 by hand.
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