Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/09/29/14:32:05
Doh! You're right! Memory is the second thing to go as you get older...
However, I still don't think these two lines to run ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc
belong in /etc/profile (neither does "cd $HOME"). They subvert the
"--noprofile" and "--norc" options to BASH.
-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 11:26 AM
To: Masterson, Dave; 'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'
Subject: RE: /etc/profile in BASH
--- "Masterson, Dave" <dmasters AT rational DOT com> wrote:
> I didn't realize that a login BASH doesn't execute ~/.bashrc. Be that as
it
> may, I think it should be the decision of ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.profile)
> whether to execute ~/.bashrc -- *NOT* /etc/profile. Putting this into
> /etc/profile makes it too BASH-centric. What about the [T]CSH users?
Also,
> what about ~/.bash_login files (as described in the MAN page)?
>
IIRC [t]csh doesn't user /etc/profile. Use the source, Luke. (tm)
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
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