[arch-general] User Environment Setup in Arch Linux?

[Jordy van Wolferen]

On Thursday 23 April 2009 14:48:27 Vincent Schumaker wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:37 AM, David C. Rankin <
>
> drankinatty at 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

What I do is:
ln -s ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile

To always have the same settings