On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU.
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Austin G. Swinney wrote:
> >
> > > Thanx! I added
> > > alias dup='/sbin/ifup ppp0'
> > > alias ddw='/sbin/ifdown ppp0'
> > > to .bash in RH6.0. Then because it is an initialization file (I
> > > guess), I rebooted and it worked.
> >
> > A bit of overkill. Just loging out and back in is sufficient.
>
> That in itself is overkill, just type '. .bashrc' or 'source .bashrc'
> That is realy the same principle of sending a SIGHUP to a running process,
> what it does is tell the program/shell to reread its configuration file or
> in this case the shells enviroment file.
You are mostly rightm but if (for example) you have removed an alias, it
won't get removed by just sourcing .bashrc again.
Frank
> Regards Richard.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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