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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:49:57 -0800
To: Roland Glenn McIntosh <roland AT steeltorch DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: .bashrc not getting sourced?
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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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