On Thursday August 02 2001 11:42, Aaron Traas wrote: [snip] > > 4) in my /etc/profile, I add the line: > alias ls='ls --color -F' > This works very nicely at the console, but for some reason, when I'm in > X, this doesn't work in Konsole or Xterm. I have to do an: > exec bash --login > Each time I open up a terminal to get this working correctly. This also > happens when I use 'su'. Is there any way to guarentee consistent > behavior despite login method?? [snip]
This is easy to explain, and, in fact, you are doing the steps yourself. /etc/profile is read only for login shells. If you want commands from this file to work in any shell started in X (by default, X shells are not login shells), you can add 'source /etc/profile' in /etc/bash.bashrc. This file is used for the non-login shells. Sourcing a file reads that file. -Andy
