Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc:	Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>, peter@××××××××××××××.org, ny6p01@×××××.com
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user
Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:11:41
Message-Id:	`525DA16D.5000007@gmail.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user by Alan McKinnon

1	On 10/15/2013 10:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2	> On 15/10/2013 21:34, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
3	>
4	>> I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root.
5	>>
6	>> Is that normal?
7	>>
8	>> What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do
9	>> that?
10	>>
11	>
12	> create the file and edit it
13	>
14	> There's no magic to those files, they were copied there from the install
15	> tarball, or from /etc/skel, or from any number of places. They are just
16	> files
17	>
18	>
19	>
20	Simple as that, huh?
21
22	Understood. Thanks.