Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <001001c1db2b$563d9e40$0100a8c0@advent02> From: "Chris January" To: References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020403104228.00a9c1d8@tbri.com> Subject: Re: v1.3.10 - must run bash twice to read .bashrc Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:19:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brust" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 4:50 PM Subject: v1.3.10 - must run bash twice to read .bashrc > I have looked all through the list archives and on google groups, but this > problem does not seem to be listed. > > I am running Windows 2000, logging in to an NT domain (not sure if any of > this matters). When I run the Cygwin shortcut, it logs in OK, but does not > run the .bashrc (I have a few aliases, that's how I can tell). I need to > run "bash" again to get it to load .bashrc. This is the documented behaviour of bash when launched with --login (as it is in cygwin.bat). See the INVOCATION section in the bash manpage for further details. Regards Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/