Renat Golubchyk wrote: > That's wrong. Quote: > > "When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- > active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- > mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading > that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, > in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that > exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the > shell is started to inhibit this behavior." > > Notice "the first one that exists and is readable". > > >> If "~/.bash_profile" doesn't exist, then "~/.bashrc" won't be sourced >> whether it exists or not. >> > > Wrong again. Two paragraphs down in the man page: > > "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash > reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists." > > In this case ~/.bashrc is sourced directly. > > > Cheers, > Renat >
Rats. I checked the source and you're right. My problem domain is smaller than I thought but still valid, I think. Basically the problem is only with interactive login shells and /root. Not *broken*, per se: just contrary to recommended practice. The Bash documentation *recommends* that a ~/.bash_profile exists so that ~/.bashrc can be made to be sourced for login shells and codifies its recommendation by putting a template .bash_profile in /etc/skel. - John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
