X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <52a6260eb78f20003f0c02d953065d71.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <244882 DOT 68384 DOT qm AT web34508 DOT mail DOT mud DOT yahoo DOT com> <4B741CEB DOT 6070706 AT towo DOT net> <1ef5a52f1002110730v4325a8a0qd8e371019530a5da AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <490452 DOT 20994 DOT qm AT web34508 DOT mail DOT mud DOT yahoo DOT com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:17:15 -0000 Subject: Re: .bashrc file not run From: "John Morrison" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.20-RC2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit OpenPGP: id=5E84D85D42B54E92 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: ::1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on gateway.morrison.mine.nu); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, February 12, 2010 8:53 am, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * 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. Hi Thorsten Thanks for that clarification; should I change the base-files? Or create ~/.profile as a copy/link? to ~/.bash_profile? Still confused as to why the skel files weren't copied into Neils user directory in the first place. Oh well. J. -- 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