On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:34:38AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> I recenltly moved around my home directory. Previously it was in /rdonald 
> (separate partition), and then I move it to /home/rdonald. I logged in as 
> root, and edit /etc/passwd and put my home dir as /home/rdonald there.
> 
> However, I forgot to copy some files from the old home before I deleted it, 
> including .bashrc. No problem, I though, I just copied it from my other 
> machine. But then whenever I log in, the /home/rdonald/.bashrc file does not 
> get executed. I know this because I customize my prompt there, and I defined 
> some aliases. If after log in, I type 'bash' again, then all is well. What do 
> I need to look to fix this? It's just little annoying.

I set the environment variable "ENV" to ~/.bashrc" in my .bash_profile.
This insures that .bashrc get executed for my login shell as
well as for each subsequently spawned shell.


> 
> Thanks for any answer.
> RDB
> 
> 
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> Reuben D. Budiardja
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> The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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