On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:37 AM, David C. Rankin < drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Listmates,
Coming from SuSE, I'm used to /etc/profile sourcing ~/.bashrc. I was scratching my head as to why my .bashrc wasn't being read when I would ssh into the Arch Linux box. Looking at the Arch /etc/profile it seems parts come from SuSE, but not the part about also sourcing ~/.bashrc.
Any reason not to source ~/.bashrc from /etc/profile in Arch? Will I screw myself up somewhere else?
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David, Bash won't source ~/.bashrc unless it's a login shell. Try creating/editing ~/.bash_profile. Check the "Startup Scripts" section in the bash entry of Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash -- - Vincent Schumaker