On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:34:21 -0800, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Is this within a windows manager (ie: KDE)? Some terminal programs (ie: konsole) are not set up to do a login session. For instance, just running 'xterm' may not run your login scripts. Running 'xterm -ls' will. Just a thought. -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
