Philip Hazel wrote: > Other people's views? Well, from bash(1):
| When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a | non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and | executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. | After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, | and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from | the first one that exists and is readable. [...] | When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash | reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if | these files exist. This of course suggests to put aliases into ~/.bashrc. (or /etc/bash.bashrc) But I don't think that helps much. There may be millions of people out there, that have put their aliases into /etc/profile or wherever, and we have to take care of them too. But that's easy, you can just run "unalias -a" to turn of all aliases. lg, daniel -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
