--- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-07-11 11:18, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I added this option but I still do not get my ~/.profile sourced > >>> (no aliases). Going '. ~/.profile' gives me my aliases. How > does > >>> aterm know what file to look for? > >> > >> aterm doesn't care about .profile or other files. It starts a > shell, > >> based on the $SHELL environment variable and your login shell from > >> `/etc/passwd'. > >> > >> What shell are you using? > > > > $ echo $SHELL > > /usr/local/bin/bash > > > > $ grep peter /etc/passwd > > peter:*:1002:100:User &:/home/peter:/usr/local/bin/bash > > > > Do I need to set up a different file (.bashrc)? > > GNU bash will not read .profile if you also have a .bash_profile > file. > > What do you see in your HOME directory with: > > $ ls -ld .*profile .*rc > > In my local setup here, I see something like this: > > $ pwd > /home/giorgos > $ ls -ld .bash* .sh* .profile > -rw------- 1 giorgos giorgos - 30103 Jul 11 18:47 > .bash_history > -rw-rw-r-- 1 giorgos giorgos - 318 Jul 11 17:47 > .bash_profile > -rw-rw-r-- 1 giorgos giorgos - 3742 Jul 11 18:17 .bashrc > -rw-rw-r-- 1 giorgos giorgos - 1006 Mar 29 07:19 .profile > -rw-rw-r-- 1 giorgos giorgos - 1433 Nov 18 2004 .shrc
$ ls -ld .*profile .*rc -rw-rw---- 1 peter users 767B Jul 29 2005 .cshrc -rw------- 1 peter users 26B May 2 11:08 .dmrc -rw-rw---- 1 peter users 331B Jul 29 2005 .mailrc -rw-rw---- 1 peter users 31B Jun 28 21:33 .mcoprc -rw-rw---- 1 peter users 1.6K Jul 4 15:31 .profile -rw-r--r-- 1 peter users 616B Jun 19 22:10 .screenrc -rw-rw---- 1 peter users 975B Jul 29 2005 .shrc -rw-rw---- 1 peter users 402B Jul 11 09:29 .xinitrc __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
