Steve Holmes wrote: > 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. I've always used ~/.bashrc because it was less global in nature. I had my user profile and my admin profile, and didn't mix the two. It was already set up that way in Debian, and I liked it. Sometimes it was a hassle, but it kept me on the straight and narrow for security purposes. I'd rather move things to /etc/skel and not interfere with how others might want to do things. The global settings are doing that to me now, forcing me to keep aliases I don't want. <laughs> Thank you for the info. Michael