On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 03:54:12PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> The following are the contents of my .bash_profile and .bashrc: >>> >>> #.bash_profile : >>> [ -f ~/.bashrc ] && source ~/.bashrc >>> #end-of-file >> >> You have this backwards. ~/.bashrc should contain something like >> this: >> >> if [ -f "${HOME}/.bash_profile" ] >> then >> source "${HOME}/.bash_profile" >> fi > > Jeremy, I'm not sure what version of FreeBSD you are using but I'd like > to point out that in 6.2 and 6.3-REL his version is correct and yours > will not work.
That's funny, because mine does work. I spent quite a lot of time looking at the bash man page over the years to determine how to properly meet said needs. I use the exact same setup on Solaris 7/8/9/10 (bash v2) and FreeBSD 4/5/6/7/8 (bash v3), and it works exactly how the man page describes. > .bashrc is not sourced on login on any of my hosts. I have ". > ~/.bashrc" in my .bash_profile. And I just commented it out, and > .bash_profile environment was set up, and the stuff in .bashrc was not. Everyone lecturing me needs to read, slowly, the INVOCATION part of the bash man page. The method I described above should become apparent afterwards. > Is this perhaps an X versus SSH login sort of thing? I don't know. We > have no X environment, this is entirely logging in via SSH. No, I do not use X anywhere. The OP may be using it. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"