Easy help needed from someone who knows something...

dhrivnak · 10-26-2003, 08:48 PM

I got a problem that is probably really easy to solve:

I made .bashrc files for my root and user for aliases, but I can't get them to work (unless I do a "source .bashrc" each time after I turn on the computer). Any way to initialize them during startup? I tried adding the following to the /etc/rc.d/rc.S script:

Code:

#initializes .bashrc files:
source /root/.bashrc
source /home/dan/.bashrc

Any ideas?

DarknessX · 10-26-2003, 09:23 PM

are you sure you're running bash?

.bashrc won't do a whole lot of good if you're running tcsh for example.
Try loading up a shell, and typing 'bash' and seeing if your aliases work.

If they do, edit /etc/passwd and change the last option (should be a path to a shell) to /bin/bash for your user and root.

If that doesn't work, someone on a higher linux plateau is needed.

tgflynn · 10-26-2003, 09:24 PM

The rc script you wrote will have no effect whatsoever. The initialization files need to be read when a shell is started. The rc scripts are executed in an entirely different context.

Try creating files named .bash_profile which contain the following lines in the users' home directories (or add these lines if the files already exist) :

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi

Tim

DarknessX · 10-26-2003, 09:55 PM

like Tim/tgflynn.

dhrivnak · 10-26-2003, 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tgflynn
The rc script you wrote will have no effect whatsoever. The initialization files need to be read when a shell is started. The rc scripts are executed in an entirely different context.

Try creating files named .bash_profile which contain the following lines in the users' home directories (or add these lines if the files already exist) :

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi

Tim

Thanks a LOT! It worked. I was using bash, but didn't have the .bash_profile files...