Sunday, February 29, 2004 6:01:48 PMJust a couple more observations:
If I am following you correctly, then having a ~/,bashrc, ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile file is worthless, if bash reads only the first file that it finds.
/etc/profile and ~/.profile are both in fact the configuration files for sh, but bash reads them, presumably because it is at root a feature-rich version of sh. Having both shells read the same files would normally be a good thing on any given system (if you want, say, a non-standard path in sh you'll probably want it in bash too) and so this is the default and FreeBSD does not create any of the ~/.bash* files. Therefore, the ~/.profile file is not worthless on a standard installation of FreeBSD, in fact it _is_ the user config file when an interactive bash shell is started.
But, as I understand it, if you want to you can override the sh config for bash while leaving it in place for sh by using a ~/.bash* file. Different versions of these files match different file naming conventions of different unixen. But only one such will be read, in a stated order of precedence, to avoid confusion.
PWR.
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