On Thursday 23 April 2009 14:48:27 Vincent Schumaker wrote: > 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? > > > > -- > > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > > 510 Ochiltree Street > > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > > www.rankinlawfirm.com > > 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 What I do is: ln -s ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile To always have the same settings
