Hi, Jérôme Bove wrote: > I'd like to edit my .bashrc file. So i edit it (vi /home/user/.bashrc) > and save. When I open X-Terminal or connect via ssh to user (not root), > the bashrc is not executed. > If I do su user, then bashrc is executed. > I installed bash and edit my /etc/passwd file for user to use bash. > What should I do for bashrc to be executed ? To develop on what Alejandro said, when bash starts, it reads the following, in this order: (some approximate definitions: a login shell is when you start bash from a login prompt, an interactive shell is when you're able to run commands interactively, as opposed to starting bash for a shell script) If bash is started as an interactive login shell: * Read and execute /etc/profile (if the file exists) * Search for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile in that order and read and execute the first one it finds When a login shell exits: * Read and execute ~/.bash_logout, if it exists. If started as an interactive, non-login shell (eg. run directly as /bin/bash): * Read and execute /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if they exist. If started non-interactively in a shell script: * Expand BASH_ENV environment variable, and read and execute the file in it, if it exists According to the Bash manpage, if started from a network log-in: * Read and execute /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if they exist. I just tested, for an SSH-launched shell, only .bash_profile got run for me, not .bashrc Here on my laptop, the default .bash_profile contains if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc; fi which basically says that .bashrc will get executed for every login shell, as well as non-login shells. Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: dneary@xxxxxxxxx Jabber: bolsh@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
