That sounds awfully odd to me... /etc/profile should be executed on
login- and your ~/.bashrc should "exec /etc/bashrc" if it exists.
What's the line you're inserting into these files? Your syntax may be
incorrect.
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-Matt Stegman
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> If I'm using bash, where in the default mandrake 6 install does a person
> add both system wide and personal aliases for execution whenever the shell
> is opened? I've looked around and added a test alias to almost every file
> I can think of, but none of the files are executed on login.
>
> I have edited ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile, and I
> think some others, all to no avail.
