Like Chuck said, use .profile; that's what I do. Not sure about .bashrc; I've heard of it but never make use of it. About those other aliases that keep comming back, look in your /etc directory. Read through /etc/profile for starters and notice the reference to /etc/profile.d and all the .sh files inside. Aliases can be, and are set in one or more of those scripts. I think most of them pertain to the ls command and other environment variables are set in there too. Another brief educational experience awaits you when browsing the /etc directory.:) On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 05:35:11AM +0100, Gaijin wrote: > Hi again all, > > Well, Slack11 is working great. The BSD init setup is strange > after working in System V. I have a really strange problem. I saved a > few of my own aliases in a file called .aliases, and then made and added > the lines to .bashrc: > > echo 3 > /proc/speakup/rate > source ~/.aliases > > It didn't work, so I unaliased all of my aliases and tried again. > That didn't work either, so I deleted every single file in the home > directory, deleted every alias, logged out, logged vack in, and guess > what? The stoopid default aliases were back! wtf? Is Windows haunting > my Linux drive now? Anyone know how to get rid of the default aliases > and add my own? .bashrc doesn't seem to work in Slack for some odd > reason, and yeah, I'm using bash. Ran Debian for over two years, so I'm > not TOO stupid. <laughs> Thank the gods I'm running sendmail. Best > news I've had since January. I wonder if there's a way to generate an > installed package list. > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://holmesgrown.ld.net/
