X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_TX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: u.JgLvyswBBMp9ZJJfsX14qmYb3T2ivhMAr6OupnxLpNQEFZ9g-- Message-ID: <512E489F.8060700@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:55:43 +0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com CC: layer AT known DOT net Subject: Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile References: <15470 DOT 1361923720 AT relay DOT known DOT net> In-Reply-To: <15470.1361923720@relay.known.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 27/02/2013 00:08, Kevin Layer wrote: > If I put this into .startxwinrc: > > mintty /usr/bin/bash.exe --login -i > > the resulting shell does not read .bash_profile. If I put > > mintty /usr/bin/bash.exe -i > > it doesn't read .bashrc. I've tried to reproduce this, but it seem to work ok for me. How can are you checking if ~/.bashrc has been read? Have you tried using bash -v to check what bash is reading? This is also a really odd place to start mintty. Why start it as a side effect of the unrelated action starting the X server? > My ultimate goal is to use ssh-agent/ssh-add to make life easier, but > it requires my .bashrc to be sourced (.bash_profile merely sources > .bashrc). If you are going to work with both mintty and X clients, which will not naturally have a common parent ssh-agent process to inherit from, you might want to investigate the keychain package. -- 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