On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:58:24PM -0500, Stone, Timothy wrote:
> I will close by saying I'm developing a hypothesis for my best practice:
>
> ~/.bashrc should contain user aliases, functions and variables for
> the local system that builds on /etc/bashrc ~/.bash_profile should
> contain user ali
d thoughts welcome.
Thanks again and warmest regards,
Tim
> -Original Message-
> From: Todd A. Jacobs [mailto:nospam@;codegnome.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 01:34
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: need help with ~/.bash_profile
>
>
> On Thu,
the shipped redhat(7.x) arrangement of bashrc's & profile's is confusing
and incorrectly documented. i evolved to this solution:
discard /etc/skel/.bash_profile before creating any users
replace /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc
i leave /etc/skel/.bashrc in place. it contains merely an invocation of
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Stone, Timothy wrote:
> Is there something I'm missing here? Something that needs to be turned
You've probably failed to export the variable. You can either:
export SOME_VARIABLE=foo
or:
SOME_VARIABLE=foo
export SOME_VARIABLE
But either way
-Original Message-
> From: Paul Campbell [mailto:seapwc@;halcyon.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 15:16
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: need help with ~/.bash_profile
>
>
> Do you logoff and logon after changing the bash.
>
> env | grep SHELL
>
Do you logoff and logon after changing the bash.
env | grep SHELL
will tell you what you are actually running
At 01:54 PM 10/31/02 -0500, you wrote:
>While I'm not a newbie with Linux (mostly abuse Apache and Java on my box) I take a
>lot of things for granted. One is how BASH works. It works mo
While I'm not a newbie with Linux (mostly abuse Apache and Java on my box) I take a
lot of things for granted. One is how BASH works. It works most of the time.
In fact I'm a TCSH convert to BASH. In RHL 7.3 BASH is the default shell, hence my
conversion. But let me ask about the ~/.bash_profile
