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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
Subject: Re: .bashrc file not run
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:53:11 +0100
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* John Morrison (Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:26:24 -0000)
> 
> ~/.bash_profile should already be setup to call ~/.bashrc
> 
> it should have been in the base-files package which creates the /etc/skel
> files which should be copied when the user first log's on.
> 
> AFAIK bash doesn't use a ~/.profile file.

It does (as an "alternative" for .bash_profile). If you're not running 
other shells that use ~/.profile you should name the profile file 
.bash_profile.

Thorsten


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