-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 14:39, Oliver Lange wrote: > Sorry for the self-reply, > > I just found out what's the problem with my bash init: > > While /root/.bashrc exists, /root/.bash_profile didn't exist > after installing gentoo. Now i know that .bashrc isn't executed > anyway without having a .bash_profile file. > > Sorry if i messed up this mailing list with my stupid postings, > but i simply don't know anything about bash and all that.
root isn't 'created' in the normal sense. When you add a user 'useradd' with the -m flag the contents of /etc/skel (a skeleton user) is copied to their newly created home directory. One of the first things I do on a new install is copy the contents of /etc/skel to /root - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1z7YInuLMrk7bIwRAsRnAJ90uF5Z5m6kcTo+EDKwa/pC3Gi6eQCglPxx Z+VNaKu6P4v08MYoZKqSWb8= =hJJR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
