On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:00:00PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: | Ian Balchin wrote: | > | > Karsten & Matthew, | > | > Thanks, you have cleared up the mysteries for me. Well, | > almost..... | > | > .... soooo, if Debian is looking for a bashrc or profile file, it | > won't mind if it has a dot in front or not, right? :> | | Not exactly... | | If it's in your home directory, it's got a dot.
Correct | If it's in /etc, it hasn't. By default, though in reality whatever is sourced by the user's private ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc is what really counts. There is no law that says the user has to source the system config, and there is no law that says what its name is. By convention, though, it is /etc/bash.bashrc in Debian and /etc/bashrc on most other systems. -D
