On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:52:53PM -0500, Andy Estes wrote:
> I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1).  The default shell for my user account is
> bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on.  However,
> the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default.  If I explicitely
> invoke bash (typing 'bash' at the shell), .bashrc is executed properly, but
> if I simply log in (locally or remotely), it doesn't happen.  Can anyone
> explain what is going on here?

1) install the bash-doc package, then read the section about bash
startup files in "info bash"

2) fix your problem with putting '. ~/.bashrc' (without the '') in
~/.bash_profile

mfg,

Stephen Rüger


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