On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:37 AM, David C. Rankin <
drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Listmates,
>
> Coming from SuSE, I'm used to /etc/profile sourcing ~/.bashrc. I was
> scratching my head as to why my .bashrc wasn't being read when I would ssh
> into
> the Arch Linux box. Looking at the Arch /etc/profile it seems parts come
> from
> SuSE, but not the part about also sourcing ~/.bashrc.
>
> Any reason not to source ~/.bashrc from /etc/profile in Arch? Will I
> screw
> myself up somewhere else?
>
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David,
Bash won't source ~/.bashrc unless it's a login shell. Try
creating/editing ~/.bash_profile. Check the "Startup Scripts" section in
the bash entry of Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash
--
- Vincent Schumaker
