On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Eric Paynter wrote: > > When you initiate an interactive session, the shell chooses an > initialization script to run based on how you started the session. > If you use bash, it may run ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile.
Gentoo by default sources .bashrc from .bash_profile which is, of course, why I asked what shell he is using. If .bashrc isn't getting run, then perhaps he has a different shell without realizing it. The problem with symlinking one to the other as you suggest is if you ever use something like scp, you potentially break it, as the comment in .bashrc says. All my profile-ish things that generate output get put, correctly, into .bash_profile. Of course, if you never generate output with your login scripts then you're ok. Just something to keep in mind, though. Ric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
