I am trying to seamlessly run an x86_64 kernel on my i686 machine. I
have enough aliases that most things work right (prefixing with
linux32), but bash can not handle setting e.g. "./configure" as an alias
and there is always something I have missed.
So, I came up with a cunning plan... Create a script /bin/bash32 which
just runs "linux32 /bin/bash", then add /bin/bash32 to /etc/shells and
run "chsh -s /bin/bash32".
It works in a way... when I run uname, it tells me I am using the i686
kernel. Success! Now the bad part... my $PATH gets reduced to:
/home/allan/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
The /home/allan/bin part tells me that my ~/.bashrc is being sourced, as
does my prompt and all my aliases. So something else is being
missed. The /bin:/usr/bin is the minimum path defined in /etc/login.defs.
All the rest is in /etc/profile and the various /etc/profile.d scripts.
Why are they not being sourced... Or are they being sourced and then I
open up a new shell with my script which gets rid of them?
Allan
