On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 12:27:40PM -0600, Leon McClatchey wrote:
>
> Christopher Ballog wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > There are two different file which control Bash shell.
> >
> > 1. One is the profile file in the /etc directory and
> > 2. The second is .bashrc file in each user personal directory under the /home
>directory.
> >
>
> But, when you log in as root, and even though you create a .bashrc in the root home
>directory, it doesn't seem to have any affect on the shell that the root uses. Why?
>(I tried to set it up to run the fortunes as root, and can't get it to run? why?
Does your /root/.profile read thusly?
test -z "$PROFILEREAD" && . /etc/profile
if test -f ~/.bashrc; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
... and if so, does /root/.bashrc exist and is it set up the way you want it
to be?
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