X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B9EE1C6.8070005@bopp.net> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:41:26 -0500 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.1: Incomplete install References: <4B9E94C8.6020908@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Roe, Kevin L. wrote: > So a complete uninstall (by deleting the directory and removing registry references) followed by a complete install fixed all my problems except one: > > My rxvt shortcut results in a prompt that has not read my .bashrc file. So I hacked the /etc/profile file to include the line: > > . "//.bashrc" > > That fixed it. And it broke automatically updating /etc/profile for the future. Rather than editing your /etc/profile file, create a .bash_profile file in your home directory with the following contents: [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc Then read the bash manpage regarding startup files. What you want is at the beginning of the INVOCATION section. The following excerpt provides the details for --login: When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior. > The rxvt syntax is below: > > C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -T "%COMPUTERNAME%.%USERDNSDOMAIN%" -e /bin/bash --login -c "exec /bin/bash" This can be simplified as follows (all one line): C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -T "%COMPUTERNAME%.%USERDNSDOMAIN%" -e /bin/bash --login Telling rxvt to execute /bin/bash --login (using the -e option) will start your bash shell. There is no need to tell that bash shell to simply exec another one by use of the -c option to bash. It doesn't break anything to do it your way, but it's unnecessary. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple