[arch-dev-public] System-wide bashrc?

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 11:33:40 EDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>>
>> Hmm, you could sidestep the issue by forcing your X terminals to
>> launch login shells. I use:
>> urxvt*loginShell:       true
>
> Doesn't work for all terminals and is not really intended. And starting a
> login shell takes quite a while. I used to do it this way in the past
> though. Note that you only need a small subset of the commands in
> /etc/profile.

Well even if it takes a while, it solves the config-file issue :) I
guess I don't start too many terminals in rapid-fire succession.

This here seems to indicate there is a SYS_BASHRC compile time option:
http://osdir.com/ml/bug-bash-gnu/2009-05/msg00037.html

I'll look into it


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