Did you do a new install and leave the /home intact?
I ran into that problem myself, but I'm not sure what else
caused this.
When you source your .bash_profile do you get any errors? When
you source your .bashrc do you get any errors?
Does the .bash_profile appear to be missing anything? Here's a copy
of one that I have working currently with no problem. I have added
a few things to it, but nothing drastic.
[timh@yoda timh]$ cat .bash_profile
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
USERNAME=`id -nu`
HISTIGNORE="[ ]*:&:bg:fg:w:who"
KRB5CCNAME=/home/timh/tmp/k5.ans.$USER
export USERNAME BASH_ENV PATH HISTIGNORE
The only thing I've changed/added would be the USERNAME, HISTIGNORE, and
KRB5CCNAME. I put the USERNAME in there for scripts that I've written that
read that info. I don't need to see w or who commands in my history since
I do use those a lot. And the KRB5CCNAME is there for when I was trying
to get kerberos working in Mandrake. Which as you can see it's exported
so I didn't get it working and gave up for now! lol
What'd suggest would be to copy another user's .bash_profile, AND .bashrc
to your directory. Back yours up, by renaming it, and then copy in the
new rc and _profile. IF that works, there must be something wrong with
the syntax, and something's not being sourced upon log in or opening of
another shell.
Hope that helps.
tdh
T. Holmes
Unixtechs.org
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* serafim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010505 06:24]:
| I seem to have screwed something up when installing LM8.0
| I have a large amount of initializations and definitions
| in my .bash_profile but that file is never executed
| unless I explicitly enter
|
| source .bash_profile
|
| or
|
| . ~/.bash_profile
|
| at the command prompt in my terminal windows.
|
| I just don't understand what I did wrong.
| If I start a new shell I must do it by
| the command 'bash --login' to have the
| intializations.
|
| Kind of embarrasing as I'm far from new on
| Linux.
|
| /Serafim
