Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/26/12:03:29
IIRC, if you check the archives, you should find that the behavior of
sourcing the .bashrc file in /etc/profile was discontinued in later
cygwin releases. The fact that you have it from over a year ago is
probably because the cygwin install does not overwrite files that have
been modified or exist previously.
HTH,
Peter
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Roland,
>
> My /etc/profile contains exactly the line you quote. It is the last line
> of that file, immediately following a "cd $HOME" command. This file
> bears the modification date May 10, 2001. It may be a coincidence, but
> that's right when I installed Cygwin for the first time on what was then
> a new, "clean" Windows 2000 Professional installation on this disk.
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
> At 08:37 2002-03-26, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote:
>
>> I just did a recent brand new install yesterday and I noticed that
>> /etc/profile no longer contains a line like:
>>
>> test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc
>>
>> It took me a second to figure out why .bashrc wasn't getting read (I
>> thought it happened automatically by the shell) until I compared it to
>> an older "working" cygwin install.
>>
>> Is there a specific reason for that missing line in /etc/profile, or
>> could it have been an oversight? I did notice that my redhat 7
>> system's /etc/profile doesn't seem to include such a line.
>> -rgm
>
>
>
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