I have a VM of Fedora 12 set up for school. I was instructed to set it up to start in runlevel 3. I also have a habit of customizing my .bashrc file. I create a lot of aliases for CDing to various directories among other things. I was doing this before I started x. I was in the /var/www directory when I started x. I noticed after I was in gnome that whenever I started a terminal it would open up to the /var/www directory. My question is, is this normal?

My second question is dealing with my .bashrc file. I edited the file for root. When I open up the terminal in user it did not have any of my aliases from root. I have searched and thought I had it figured out how to get they to "sync" for lack of better word. Any suggestions would be helpful. I will copy and past my root .bashrc file and user file below.

user .bashrc file


# .bashrc

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

# User specific aliases and functions

alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ..2='cd ../..'
alias ..3='cd ../../..'
alias ..4='cd ../../../..'
alias ..5='cd ../../../../..'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias l='ls -ltr'
alias cls='clear'
alias Desktop='cd /home/hazmat/Desktop'
alias desktop='cd /home/hazmat/Desktop'
alias Documents='cd /home/hazmat/Documents'
alias docs='cd /home/hazmat/Documents'
alias documents='cd /home/hazmat/Documents'
alias Downloads='cd /home/hazmat/Downloads'
alias downloads='cd /home/hazmat/Downloads'
alias Music='cd /home/hazmat/Music'
alias music='cd /home/hazmat/Music'
alias movies='cd /home/hazmat/Videos'
alias Movies='cd /home/hazmat/Videos'
alias Videos='cd /home/hazmat/Videos'
alias videos='cd /home/hazmat/Videos'
alias vids='cd /home/hazmat/Videos'
alias pics='cd /home/hazmat/Pictures'
alias Pictures='cd /home/hazmat/Pictures'
alias pictures='cd /home/hazmat/Pictures'
alias x='exit'
alias bashrc='vi ~/.bashrc'

root .bashrc file


# .bashrc

# User specific aliases and functions

alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ..2='cd ../..'
alias ..3='cd ../../..'
alias ..4='cd ../../../..'
alias ..5='cd ../../../../..'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias l='ls -ltr'
alias cls='clear'
alias Desktop='cd /home/hazmat/Desktop'
alias desktop='cd /home/hazmat/Desktop'
alias Documents='cd /home/hazmat/Documents'
alias docs='cd /home/hazmat/Documents'
alias documents='cd /home/hazmat/Documents'
alias Downloads='cd /home/hazmat/Downloads'
alias downloads='cd /home/hazmat/Downloads'
alias Music='cd /home/hazmat/Music'
alias music='cd /home/hazmat/Music'
alias pics='cd /home/hazmat/Pictures'
alias Pictures='cd /home/hazmat/Pictures'
alias pictures='cd /home/hazmat/Pictures'
alias movies='cd /home/hazmat/Videos'
alias Movies='cd /home/hazmat/Videos'
alias Videos='cd /home/hazmat/Videos'
alias videos='cd /home/hazmat/Videos'
alias vids='cd /home/hazmat/Videos'
alias x='exit'
alias bashrc='vi ~/.bashrc'
alias home='cd /home'
alias hazmat='cd /home/hazmat'
alias var='cd /var'



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

(I copied the aliases from one to the other until I can figure out what I am doing wrong. I googled it quite a bit before asking but my google-fu seems to be weak today)

How did you become root ? .. 'sudo su -' ?

No I used su then the root password, to the best of my knowledge Fedora 12 does not have a sudo account set up.

#EDIT# I guess Fedora 12 does have sudo but needs setup, I have not done this. I edited the .bashrc files in root. Tested them and they worked. Then I tried to test them as user, they did not. I then copied all my aliases from root to user in vim and then deleted them from root. Worked in user, but not root. So I tried the script that was suggested. (It is above) Messed with it some more and still could not figure it out .

Re q1)
Yes, that's normal. All sub-shells will inherit the PWD from the
shell you spawn them from; even a DE/WM will, hence gnome (and all
terminal windows started from it) will have the same PWD.

Re q2)
Use "su - " to get root's work environment - "su" will keep the
environment of the user invoking it.



Cheers,
Tink

So if I understand this correctly for the first answer, since I ran the command startx from the /var/www directory all my sub terminals start from there. Not a big deal just found it to be curious.

For the second question maybe I am not asking it correctly. I am trying to get the .bashrc files to be made in one spot and have both my user account and root account recognize it. After a little more thought I realize you would not want to do this on a server but would be a nice thing to have on my home machines. Since I have started this thread though I have decided to just make a default .txt file to carry on my thumbstick that I can just copy and past in vim whenever I set up a new install. Since I will not be editing them by hand any more in vim I will just consider this a closed thread.

Thanks for your help guys

If you want these aliases available to all users then add them to /etc/bashrc

cheers