.bashrc?

swingarm · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 10:13 pm Post subject: .bashrc?

I thought the .bashrc file was supposed to be in ~/.bashrc and /etc/bashrc but the only occurance I can find on my computer is in /etc/skel/.bashrc, is this right? I tried creating it on my own but nothing happens so I think there's something else going on. Just for the record I'm on Gentoo 1.4b(GCC 3.2 pre1) and KDE 3.02.

Kent

nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

for some reason, Gentoo has issues reading bashrc files correctly. It also doesn't automatically copy /etc/skel/* to your home directory when I new user is created, so do that manually. That should include both .bashrc and .bash_profile. Add this to .bash_profile id it's not already there:

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

I think that the organization of /etc/profile (and the absence of an /etc/bashrc that gets sourced from users' .bashrc) could be done better in Gentoo.

However, useradd will copy files from the skel dir. It needs to be given the -m flag.

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

Stuff with bashrc and bash_profile can be a bit arcane since things work differently depending on whether you have a login shell or not, whether you have a non-interactive shell and whether bash was invoked as sh.

You can find some more details here or here.

man bash tells you all you would ever want to know

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