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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:06:19 +0100
From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
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On 11.02.2010 15:55, Neil Blue wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This problem has me stumped.
>    
Me too, a while ago.

> ...
> When I login, the environment settings I put in .bashrc don't get run.
> If I source ~/.bashrc they are included as expected.
>
> Also I have added some configuration to /etc/bash.bashrc it does not get run.
> ...
>    
By design (and documentation), bash runs *only* .profile (and 
/etc/profile) if started as a "login shell".
It runs .bashrc (and /etc/...) only if *not* started as a login shell.
You may be used to different behaviour because on typical Linux systems, 
~/.bashrc (and /etc/...) is called from /etc/profile.

The personal remedy is to call ~/.bashrc from ~/.profile.
In order to keep a portable .profile, it's a good idea to guard that 
with some variable you set in .bashrc (e.g. $_HOMEBASHRC as on SUSE Linux),
so it's not called twice on Linux.

I don't know whether all Linux distributions do that in /etc/profile;
if so, following the general approach to increase compatibility with 
Linux, would it be a good idea to consider it for cygwin too?

Thomas

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