[gentoo-dev] .bashrc and .bash_profile

[gentoo-dev] .bashrc and .bash_profile

[Christian Loitsch]

before opening a bug report, I wanted to be sure, that the following is
correct.

/etc/skel/.bashrc says that it is sourced by all bash shells whether
interactive or not.

But "man bash" says:
When  an  interactive  shell  that is not a login shell is
started, bash reads and executes commands from  ~/.bashrc,
if  that  file exists. 

.bashrc is sourced by .bash_profile
As .bash_profile is sourced for all login shells:

== manpage: ==
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or  as
a  non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first
reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if
that  file  exists.  After reading that file, it looks for
~/.bash_profile,  [snip]
====

it should probably say:
# This file is sourced by all interactive bash shells on startup,
# whether
# login or not.  This file *should generate no output* or it will break
# the
# scp and rcp commands.


I also would tend to give the alias' into the .bashrc.

This is also to e.g. allow "exec screen" inside the .bash_profile

Please tell me, if I should fill out a bug-report.

christian

Re: [gentoo-dev] .bashrc and .bash_profile

[Spider]

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> This is also to e.g. allow "exec screen" inside the .bash_profile
> 

Now -that- would be veeery interesting...

doesn't screen start a login shell everytime it launches?

A wonderful eternal loop of screen->bash->screen->bash->screen->bash ... continuing only until the OOM killer strikes, you run out of file-descriptors, or max-process strikes...

pretty forkbomb, as every screen will stay alive wether the main process is alive or dead, and it will continue until you manage to time the kill to get the last screen (killall....) or change bash_profile ....


*grin*  gotta love this scenario, sounds like something I'd do early one morning ;)


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[gentoo-dev] Re: .bashrc and .bash_profile

[Christian Loitsch]

>> This is also to e.g. allow "exec screen" inside the .bash_profile
>>
>
>Now -that- would be veeery interesting...
>
works pretty well.
The only thing I have trouble with, is, that bash_logout is never called
:(
I really want my screen to be cleared everytime I log out.
I the worst case I will patch screen to clear the screen, but this is
not a nice solution.

>doesn't screen start a login shell everytime it launches?
depends:
== man page ==
If the command begins with a '-' character, the shell will
be started as a login-shell.
====
>
>A wonderful eternal loop of screen->bash->screen->bash->screen->bash ...
>continuing only until the OOM killer strikes, you run out of file-descriptors,
>or max-process strikes...
>
>pretty forkbomb, as every screen will stay alive wether the main process
>is alive or dead, and it will continue until you manage to time the kill to
>get the last screen (killall....) or change bash_profile ....
actually its not to hard to stop ;)
Happened to me, when I played with the screenrc to make bash_logout
execute.  I think a few C-c were enough.

cu
christian

ps sorry, for the wrong reply-header

[gentoo-dev] .bashrc and .bash_profile

[Tom Hosiawa]

I asked this before on gentoo-user but didn't really get a response, so
I thought I would ask here.

Why isn't .bashrc and .bash_profile from /etc/skel used by default in
/root?

Tom


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RE: [gentoo-dev] .bashrc and .bash_profile

[Brenden Walker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Hosiawa [mailto:tomek32@rogers.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:23 PM
> To: gentoo-dev
> Subject: [gentoo-dev] .bashrc and .bash_profile
> 
> 
> I asked this before on gentoo-user but didn't really get a 
> response, so I thought I would ask here.
> 
> Why isn't .bashrc and .bash_profile from /etc/skel used by 
> default in /root?

/etc/skel is copied into home directories when they are created via adduser
or other scripts.  They are not defaults other than for new user creation.
The root user is never created in the usual user creation fashion, so the
/etc/skel files are never copied.


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