On 2/2/06, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - if you're confused .. do NOT change files in anything other > than your own home directory "/home/you" > > once you get brave ... decide if you want to enforce others to > use bash or csh or tsch or zsh or hudred-other-sh > > - each will have a different priority of files it will > read or skip reading because some other files existed > and it will over-ride the defaults, while in other cases, > the defaults is still read, and user-defined changes > overrides the system defaults > > the search order is dfferent for user login vs scripts run by > root or anybody/anything else ( like cron vs your scripts calling > other scripts ) > > which shell you use is defined in /etc/passed for that user > > to add more whackyness, different distro put their defaults > in different directories and different filenames which will > add confusion > > for simplicity... let's say you use /bin/bash on debian, > which implies your the search order is: > > anything defined in one file can be redefined in the > subsquent files > > - user defined changes override system defined variables > > system files > /etc/profile = read first for user login > > /etc/bash.bashrc = interactive shell only > > > user can do what you want in these files .. > > # after /etc/profile, search in order for the first executable: > ~/.bash_profile > ~/.bash_login > ~/.profile - not read if the files exists before it > > ~/.bashrc interactive shell read it if it exists > > ~/.morebashfiles ?? > > more user stuff > ~/.alias always put aliases outside of bash files > for portability > > ~/.login > ~/.logout > > http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Bash_-_What_happens_when_you_invoke_bash > > - the above ignores other "different" distros and other shells
I am running sid with kde3.5. I have some aliases in /etc/bash.bashrc. In konsole as user if I type alias I get all aliases. But in root konsole, I don't get aliaes. Why? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042
