According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU.
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> 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, i did not even think of that when i replyed, yes you are correct in
saying that, i realy should have mentioned it, but the question was about
adding an alias.
Thanks for the nudge.
>
> Frank
>
>
> > Regards Richard.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
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Regards Richard.
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