bashrc file

LinuxUser101 · 04-14-2008, 06:39 PM

A user mentioned adding text to the ~/.bashrc file to be ran during startup. I found it and need to know, can I add this to it?

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi

export PATH=$PATH:/sbin
syndaemon -d

NNP · 04-14-2008, 06:43 PM

Should be fine like that. A .bashrc file is basically a shell script so anything that would be a valid command on the command line should be valid in that.

LinuxUser101 · 04-14-2008, 06:50 PM

Well the export PATH worked but the syndaemon -d did not load. Should this be ran from eleswhere?

jailbait · 04-14-2008, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LinuxUser101

Well the export PATH worked but the syndaemon -d did not load. Should this be ran from eleswhere?

syndaemon might not be on the PATH that exists at the time that you run the command. Try giving the full pathname for the syndaemon command.

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Steve Stites

elliott678 · 04-14-2008, 07:55 PM

I don't think syndaemon would work too well from .bashrc, it needs to be run after X starts, as far as I know. I would run it from .xinitrc, or if your desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc) has a built in function to auto start applications.