On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:44:28 -0700, gentuxx wrote: > > I'm having an issue with root's .bashrc not getting sourced at > > login. > > From man bash: > > "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash > reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists." > > .bash_profile is read for a login shell.
Yes, the usual way around this is to put [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc at the beginning of .bash_profile. The files in /etc/skel use this solution, but gentoo installation does not create those files for user root by default, you have to copy them by hand. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
