I searched the archives and found a note from Larry suggesting that I review the archives for 12-03-2001. I did this for all of Nov, Dec, and Jan and did not find at least two mentions of the problem as he suggested.
My question is pretty simple: is editing the /etc/profile the recommended way to get my ~/.bashrc file sourced? And if not, what is. It should be noted that I found a message by Gary R. Van Sickle suggesting that .bash_profile might be a better way to do things, but this doesn't directly answer my question. -rgm At 12:02 PM 03.26.2002 -0500, you wrote: >IIRC, if you check the archives, you should find that the behavior of sourcing the >.bashrc file in /etc/profile was discontinued in later cygwin releases. The fact that >you have it from over a year ago is probably because the cygwin install does not >overwrite files that have been modified or exist previously. > >HTH, >Peter > >>> >>>I just did a recent brand new install yesterday and I noticed that /etc/profile no >longer contains a line like: >>> >>> test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc >>> >>>It took me a second to figure out why .bashrc wasn't getting read (I thought it >happened automatically by the shell) until I compared it to an older "working" cygwin >install. >>> >>>Is there a specific reason for that missing line in /etc/profile, or could it have >been an oversight? I did notice that my redhat 7 system's /etc/profile doesn't seem >to include such a line. >>>-rgm -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
