On 24 January 2003 at 15:52,
"Andy Estes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?

You need to read the bash man page. Specifically, the section labelled 
"INVOCATION".

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Stephen W. Juranich                         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electrical Engineering         http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington            http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli



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