[gentoo-user] .bashrc not getting sourced at login

[gentoo-user] .bashrc not getting sourced at login

[gentuxx]

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Hi all,

I'm having an issue with root's .bashrc not getting sourced at login.  I
was under the impression that .bashrc setting overrode those of
/etc/bashrc.  Is this not the case?  Any idea why this isn't happening?

TIA

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Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc not getting sourced at login

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:44:28 -0700, gentuxx wrote:

> I'm having an issue with root's .bashrc not getting sourced at login.

From man bash:

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

.bash_profile is read for a login shell.


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Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc not getting sourced at login

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:04, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:44:28 -0700, gentuxx wrote:
> > I'm having an issue with root's .bashrc not getting sourced at
> > login.
>
> From man bash:
>
> "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
> reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists."
>
> .bash_profile is read for a login shell.

Yes, the usual way around this is to put

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

at the beginning of .bash_profile.

The files in /etc/skel use this solution, but gentoo installation does 
not create those files for user root by default, you have to copy them 
by hand.
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