.bashrc for su problems

m3lkor001 · 11-30-2007, 01:11 AM

got my bashrc working for my normal login but tried to get it to work the same for my su login as well but whenever i login as su at the terminal i get this error but colors end up working right.

Code:

m3lkor001@Linux12:~$ su
Password:
dircolors: no SHELL environment variable, and no shell type option given
Linux12:/home/m3lkor001#

and here is my .bashrc

Code:

# .bashrc

export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
umask 022

# Adding colour discriptions to files and dirs

export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
eval `dircolors`
alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'

# User specific aliases and functions

alias mono='telnet meson.mono.org'

# Makes current directory title of the console

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

using the same bashrc for my normal and su login.

command i used to copy my .bashrc file for su is (as root)

Code:

cp /home/m3lkor001/.bashrc /root

thanks for the help

Mr_C · 11-30-2007, 08:28 AM

ln -s /root/.bashrc /root/.bash_profile

then your su should work without that error message.

Personally I have 'source=~/.aliases' in my .bashrc & .bash_profile (well I linked this to .bashrc) and I put all custom stuff in the ~/.aliases file like http://claytons.googlepages.com/aliases.txt