Package: bash Version: 3.1-1 Severity: normal The bash man page says:
--rcfile file Execute commands from file instead of the system wide initialization file /etc/bash.bashrc and the standard personal initialization file ~/.bashrc if the shell is interactive (see INVOCATION below). and in "INVOCATION": When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files exist. This may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc. But as said in bug#343471, "Debian compiles bash to source /etc/bash.bashrc at startup, before the user rcfile is sourced." The man page should be fixed: "Execute commands from file instead of the standard personal initialization file ~/.bashrc [...]" and "The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.", and it should also probably say that this is specific to Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4-20051215 Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 3.1.9 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand bash recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]