Dan Martins wrote:
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 04:48:52PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:43:00 -0500
Dan Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:31:52PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote:
I am trying to figure out which file I shall edit, in order to add an
extra dir to my PATH ($HOME/bin).
If I log on to my debian sarge in text mode, my .bash_profile is read.
If I log right to X (kdm), it doesn't. The same happens to .bashrc.
Thanks!
~/.bash_profile should be read when the shell is opened as a login
shell, ie. from the console you enter username and password.
~/.bashrc should be read when a shell is opened through xterm, aterm,
Konsole, etc.
The easiest thing i've found is to add "source ~/.bashrc" to
.bash_profile and "export PATH="......"" to ~/.bashrc
The only reason i can think of not to do this is if your .bashrc and
.bash_profile set up your shell differently from each other. In my case
they're both empty except for changing my $PATH. If you run into trouble
I guess you could change your $PATH variable in a different file and
then source that file from both bash scripts.
Anyone see a problem with this?
fwiw, my system has no ~/.bash_profile and my ~/.bashrc sources /etc/profile which is the global profile.
Ok, but ~/.bashrc shouldn't be read from if bash is started as a login
shell, unless debian doesn't follow the invocation section of the bash
man page.
Sourcing ~/.bashrc from ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile
ensures you have the same $PATH in your plain old terminals as you do in
X.
Dan
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Seems like the only file being sourced was /etc/bash.bashrc. I added
. /etc/profile
to it, then
. $HOME/.bash_profile
to /etc/profile. Now my bash_profile gets read, always. It already has a
test to check if I have a 'bin' dir on my home dir.
Apparently the issue is solved, so thanks for everybody's inputs. But it
looks weird, to me. How come there's .bash_profile and .bashrc on my
home, that aren't read when the systems loads right to X? Or, I can't
set my env, when in X by any other means...
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