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O. Olson wrote:
> 	If I log in (either locally and remotely) I get the
> bash prompt, but the .bashrc is not sourced. If I then
> type “bash” on the command line then this file gets
> sourced. 

`man bash`

Check the Invocation chapter. A (bash) login shell is not expected to 
source .bashrc, although it is commonly added to either /etc/profile or 
~/.bash_profile. IIRC the /etc/profile supplied by the basefiles package 
used to source .bashrc

Other invocations do source .bashrc directly. I won't attempt to 
summarise the detail here.

Dave.

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