On Tue, Aug 17 at 09:32AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:20:06 +0200, Jeremy Brown escreveu: > > does all initialization I want to do need to go directly > > into the file "/etc/profile"?
sorta. according to "man bash" there's /etc/profile (login) and /etc/bash.bashrc (interactive). not to mention user-specific files ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc. from the INVOCATION section: When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior. When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists. This may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc. on a full moon in a no parking zone after a meteor shower during even-numbered months unless your inlaws live within 50 miles... what i think that means is LOGIN shells source /etc/profile then ~/.profile INTERACTIVE shells source ~/.bashrc (and the debian incarnation, i understand, sources /etc/bash.bashrc) so if you want all your interactivity consistent, put it into /etc/bash.bashrc -- for once-per-login stuff (things that subprocesses will inherit, like environment stuff) plop it in /etc/profile. right? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #110 from Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Here's how to TUNNEL SECURE X11 CONNECTIONS THROUGH SSH: on the client, do this: local-client# export DISPLAY=:0.0 local-client# ssh -X server then once you're logged in at the server, do: remote-server# netscape & The environment created at the server will include the DISPLAY variable, so netscape (or whatever) will dialogue with the client machine. (See "man ssh" for more.) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]