Harry Putnam wrote:
> On a root login and although root's shell is bash, the .bashrc file I
> created is not sourced.
>
> Is this a local config problem or a default system setting somewhere.
>
> Far as I know, when using bash it is supposed to look for
> .bash_profile/profile (in that order) and then .bashrc when invoked.
This is all IIRC:
bash looks for .bash_profile, and .bash_profile is the one that sends it
to .bashrc. The Gentoo default configuration is to have no .bash_profile
nor .bashrc for root. Thus, the global /etc/profile is used. This is all
done for security reasons.
If you wish to override this, set up a .bash_profile in /root/ and also set
up a .bashrc in /root/.
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