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Re: .bashrc doesn't work?



On 23-Sep-99 Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 05:45:21PM +0000, Martyn Pearce wrote:
>> 
>> | Oops! In Rat Hat putting things in your .bashrc worked... I guess I
>> | have a few more things to unlearn from Rat Hat!
>> 
>> The behavoiur of bash w.r.t. .bashrc & .bash_login is fixed.  Therefore,
>> if using .bashrc "worked" with RedHat, that probably means RedHat
>> default .bash_login sourced .bashrc .  Which is not ideal.
>> 
>   If I remeber correctly, they had .bash_profile sourcing .bashrc. Is
>   there something inherently wrong with doing such a thing?

I have this in my .bash_profile:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$QTDIR/bin
ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
HISTSIZE=100
PS1="\\$"
TERM=xterm-debian
umask 077


--
Andrew


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