Look in /etc/skel. You'll find by looking at the order of the login sequence that .bash_profile is executed first, it sources .bashrc and .bash_logout is executed at logout. If bash_profile doesn't exist then .bashrc never gets sourced. Best thing to do here is to copy the .bash* files from /etc/skel to /root and then modify .bashrc.
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 06:09, Mark D Pace wrote: > >Wait! Don't do this. Use the .profile instead. > > That is what I thought. But then I read this in .profile for a user. > > # .profile is read for all login shells > # all other interactive shells will read .bashrc > # So read .bashrc also from .profile and make all changes to .bashrc. > # Then you should always have your correct setup. > > > It seems to me that they want you to add it to .bashrc. > > > >Is there no .bash_profile in /root? > > No there was not. > There was > .exrc > .xinitrc > > So now I think I will create a .profile for root. > > > > Mark D Pace > Senior Systems Engineer > Mainline Information Systems > 1700 Summit Lake Drive > Tallahassee, FL. 32317 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Office: 850.219.5184 > Fax: 850.219.5050 > http://www.mainline.com -- Steven A. Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
