On Tuesday 01 September 2009 14:24:10 Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:09:12 +0800 > > Xi Shen <davidshe...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > every time i reboot the system, the ~/.bashrc will not be > > read/executed automatically. i have give it x attribute. also i have > > checked the /etc/bash/bashrc file, and i did not find and logic about > > reading/executing the ~/.bashrc file. is there anything wrong with my > > system? > > You don't need the executable bit set on bashrc. ~/.bashrc gets read > when you start an interactive shell, e.g. an xterm. When you log in a > login shell is started, which reads ~/.bash_profile. If you want that > your ~/.bashrc will be read on login include the following statement > in ~/.bash_profile > > [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
The standard bash_profile shipped in skel even has a comment directly above that (commented) line saying something to the effect of "uncomment the following line to have .bashrc read at every new shell"... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
