Bash from Ubuntu to Debian 6
 

Hello,

There is going to be a simple answer to this, but I can't figure out what I'm missing. Here's the deal:

I'm in the process of switching from Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian 6.0. The install went pretty well after some tinkering, but I want to replicate my bash environment from Ubuntu to the new Debian system.

I've copied over my /etc/bash.bashrc and my /etc/profile. I renamed my ~/.bashrc, logged out and back in, and expected to have my original shell environment because I would be defaulting to the system-wide settings in /etc.

Instead, the stock Debian environment remains: No completion, only the $ prompt, no up-arrow history, etc. I don't get what it's reading from and why /etc/bash.bashrc isn't being accessed. (Bash completion is installed.)

What am I missing? Thanks for any insight, because my productivity bites without my usual bash environment.

landshark

Are you sure you're in bash and not another shell?

What is the output of this command?

~blush~

Yeah, wrong shell. I didn't think of that. Assumptions can be dangerous, eh?

I ran:

chsh -s /bin/bash

in order to change the default shell to bash, but once I figure out how to configure dash or csh I will change it again.

Thanks for the insight

landshark