On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:10:44PM -0400, Penguin Lover fire-eyes squawked: > Well, i got totally confused, it seemed i couldn't for the life of me get > ~/.bashrc pulled in no matter what i did. > > I put the following into ~/.bash_profile and it worked out fine. I'm > wondering .bash_profile is loaded for login shells. .bashrc is loaded for for interactive shells that are not login shells.
The reason .bashrc is usually loaded when you log-in as a user is that the skeleton file gentoo defaults to when creating a new user (/etc/skel/*) has the line [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc which sources .bashrc The default for root, however, does not contain that line (at least on my box, the installation of which is at least 3 years old). I think that is cause enough to file a bug against the wordings in the ebuild. W -- "Fortunately, this is where we stop, for the equations of motion are 2nd order. If it were 5th order you'd all probably switch to biology." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 163 days, 17:11 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
