quoth the Harry Putnam: > On a root login and although root's shell is bash, the .bashrc file I > created is not sourced. > > Is this a local config problem or a default system setting somewhere. > > Far as I know, when using bash it is supposed to look for > .bash_profile/profile (in that order) and then .bashrc when invoked. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
No,it won't get sourced by default. Not sure if this is the 'correct' way to
do it but I just add:
if [ -e ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
to the end of my /etc/profile
hth
-d
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