Re: personal .bashrc

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Hi
>
> on the standard user's home I use everyday I have the .bashrc file 
> that is read upon login.
>
> Now I created a brand new user (with adduser), but the .bashrc file I 
> inserted in his home is never read upon login...  in /etc/profile and 
> /etc/bash.profile the .bashrc is actually never read...  so how does 
> it work?
Check .bash_profile for the original user.  It is probably sourcing 
.bashrc with code similar to:

# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
   . ~/.bashrc
fi

and your new user is probably not doing this.

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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com