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Re: bash won't read in ~/.bashrc



Hi!

On Fri Aug 22, 2003 at 05:59:26PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> I have a machine running Debian Woody.  I made some changes to my ~/.bashrc
> file, but the changes aren't taking.  The changes I made to root's ~/.bashrc
> work like a champ, but not for my regular user account.  I can access the
> server via SSH, and basically, it works for root (whether I ssh in directly or
> first as a regular user and then su -).  For my regular user it only works 
> when I execute 'bash' again at the bash prompt.  Otherwise, nothing.  Why is
> this?

Have a look at the users ~/.bash_profile. You have to uncomment these
lines:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    source ~/.bashrc
fi

So long
Thomas

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