bash_profile

strycnine · 10-21-2006, 03:51 AM

In other distribution there is a file .profile(or bash_profile), where u can edit and tell what to do when the bash shell is opening.
In slackware I don't have it, it is in another place?

achu · 10-21-2006, 04:09 AM

Simply make this file, it will work.

pkn · 10-21-2006, 04:12 AM

Slack uses the file /etc/profile and the directory /etc/profile.d for system wide defaults...

For personal settings you can make your own ~/.profile, you will have to create the file yourself... it is not done for you. If you want to have an example .profile for new users you can place one in /etc/skell

jong357 · 10-21-2006, 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pkn

If you want to have an example .profile for new users you can place one in /etc/skell

As long as you give the -m switch to useradd. And remove the extra "l" from skell. /etc/skel is the directory. ;-)

pkn · 10-21-2006, 11:01 AM

Ghehe... on another forum (NedLinux) I have a sig like "Pkn does not give guaranties on file and path names.... he uses tab-completion..."

Woodsman · 10-22-2006, 02:11 PM

Perhaps the following will help:

Harmonizing the Bash Startup Scripts