Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/15/2013 10:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/10/2013 21:34, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. Is that normal? What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do that? create the file and edit i

Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2013 22:34:15 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. > > Is that normal? > > What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do > that? I just adapt my ordinary user's files for use by root. -- Re

Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/10/2013 21:34, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. > > Is that normal? > > What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do > that? create the file and edit it There's no magic to those files, they were

Re: [gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Lee
On Oct 15, 2013 12:35 PM, "Alexander Kapshuk" wrote: > > I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. > > Is that normal? > > What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do > that? > > Thanks. > > IIRC there's a default profile in /etc or /usr som

[gentoo-user] re: no dot profile/bashrc for root user

2013-10-15 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I've noticed there's no .profile or .bash_profile or .bashrc in /root. Is that normal? What if I want to set/modify some environment variables? How would I do that? Thanks.