:-> "stephen" == stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) When I log in, my .bashrc isn't executed. Here's my ls -al:
> -rwx------ 1 stephen stephen 694 Mar 24 09:59 .bashrc
> What do I need to do to get this to execute. I've set up a .login which
> executes the file and even set up a symbolic link of .profile. Still no
> dice.
Upon login, (or when invoked with the --login command line argument),
bash executes whatever is in /etc/profile, and then it look for (in
order) ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login and ~/.profile. The first one
found is the first one executed, and the other are ignored. On logout,
it calls ~/.bash_logout.
Non interactive shells instead look only for ~/bashrc.
So if you want to do the same things both at login and at secondary shells
(e.g. xterms), you may want to put all your environment definitions,
aliases and functions in ~/.bashrc and have a line like
source ~/.bashrc
in your ~/.bash_profile, which may contain other additional stuff such
as playing your favourite chime when you log in.
> 2) Where do I need to put programs which I want to execute on boot up? I
> guess I'm looking for the equivalent of RedHat's /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
/etc/rc.boot exists in debian but is deprecated.
Look in /etc/init.d and try to modify one of the existing scripts for
the stuff that you want started/stopped at boot/shutdown.
Then have a look at update-rc.d which is a nice debian script to
update the boot links in the /etc/rcX.d directories.
> Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks!
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> steve
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