Will Lowe wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jason Bauer wrote: > > > I've got Debian Linux 1.3 using bash for a shell. When I go into X-Windows > > (Afterstep win. manager) I lose all of my aliases and other settings that > Do you mean these settings don't work if you (for example) start up an > xterm with bash in it? > > > get run in my .bash-profile when I login > That's the problem. .bash-profile is run *only* for login shells -- when > you start an xterm, you're not logging in again, so bash doesn't read > .bash-profile. You've got a pair of bash settings files: .bashrc (run for > non-login shells, like xterms) and .bash_profile (run only for login > shells). This is so you can do things like set terminals up and check for > mail only when you login -- don't need to do this otherwise. > > The simplest soluction is to put all the login-specific stuff in > .bash_profile, and put all your aliases and other setups in .bashrc. > Then make the last line of .bash_profile be "source .bashrc" -- so that > stuff gets loaded even in login shells. > > An alternative would be to start all bash shells as login shells by doing > "bash --login" every time you want to start a shell. That works ok, but > is kinda silly.
The parameter to xterm or rxvt to make it a "login shell" window is '-ls'. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
