On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:57:20AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > As for setting up basic bash configuration, a little experimentation > shows that this is what I've got (debian 3.0r1). > > Root has both .bashrc and .profile, and the configuations (custom bash > prompt and setterm) can go in either place. User has a .bashrc and > .bash_profile (there's no .profile), and the configuration must go > into the latter. It does not work for me if put into .bashrc. >
I once gathered this information (is this right ?): # ~/.profile, at login autoread by all Bourne-compatible shells \ (after /etc/profile) # ~/.profile is *NOT* executed by bash shell if ~/.bash_profile exists # All 2nd level bash shells will read ~/.bashrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]