On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 03:27:07PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
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| And I was under the impression that is what /etc/profile is for. Every shell
| should source /etc/profile. Bash also sources /etc/bashrc and if a user,
| ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile. Am I completely wrong here? This seems to be a
| sane setup.
This isn't quite what happens. bash read ~/.bashrc for non-login
shells and ~/.bash_profile for login shells. Thats as far as the
automatic reading goes. Typically your .bashrc or .bash_profile will
source the system-wide files in /etc, but they don't have to. Also,
on Debian the system-wide bashrc file is /etc/bash.bashrc.
-D
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