From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MijxI-0003O8-IV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:08:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9770EE0774; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DC9E0774 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so1012330fga.10 for ; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:17:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=rrFC9R65XfzWjaMV+diHe8Q7/2Do2NqpGcq5mLKpeyA=; b=Rqedl8I0eSlrthNhF3hBgqm6asi+UQvKwpObT42BNNRajf92nwhqGEFUgC7CouwrnM 7IDQvyU5zqGEmDA2ig1+E9IV8xteywkuOs+RYw9u/gRQ+T6qFOpDtt2qXy2XQypad8MZ 0b30svrgNnMkonKwdDHKE1acFQBa7sALV1SZU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=QVPSlj6qRm/ZuPVix3nb4pJu9bVcnfW8gt8l8fIHEJQ9UA4zvaklYjbD0JpeKRyy9L JrAyja7mbgn3w8CVtcp/pNzbnvoU0Q2wIKgJbrlGxT6yy96xe7Ea7uVtAz1VxO1qLWFn pocXCIfDn9O1OdbwNjw3BvSIuPZIBgwtCn4lI= Received: by 10.86.16.9 with SMTP id 9mr2461756fgp.8.1251893833737; Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-68-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm2682837fga.5.2009.09.02.05.17.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:17:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo wont read .bashrc automatically Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:15:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <53e35fd50909010509l553bd715y1a4c7b6f796e2583@mail.gmail.com> <53e35fd50909020428l5720b494s2f57cf9d92b0cecf@mail.gmail.com> <4A9E5ED2.7020601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A9E5ED2.7020601@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909021415.44371.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9e91c0eb-f967-4212-9f4e-fdce925e3464 X-Archives-Hash: 7fbb78664b233553a2ab335cead7dbc6 On Wednesday 02 September 2009 14:02:26 Dale wrote: > Xi Shen wrote: > > where is the bash_profile? i cannot find it on my gentoo. > > root@smoker / # locate bash_profile > /etc/skel/.bash_profile > /usr/portage/app-shells/bash/files/dot-bash_profile > /usr/portage/media-tv/mythtv/files/bash_profile > /home/dale/.bash_profile > /home/dale2/.bash_profile > root@smoker / # > > I think the one in /etc/skel/ is the one you are looking for. I posted > the command so you would know how I found it. ;-) Changing it now won't do him any good - the one on skel is just a template file copied over to the new home dir when a user is created. He'll have to diff the files and apply the bits he wants to his own .bash_profile Or do the same to /etc/profile* to have it apply to all users as a global default -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com