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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:41:51PM +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
On Thu, 19 May 2005 18:51:05 +0100 dave morgan wrote:On Thu, 19 May 2005 15:46:42 +0100, Henry Bremridge <debian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Debian Sarge: I have changed # /root/.bashrc so that when I enter "ls" as root I get the command ls --color etc etc However no what I do to $~/.bashrc I cannot get any alias to work. Even if I delete the file alltogether nothing happens. Can someone point out to me what other files need to be changed so that I can set up alias's for myself as user Many thanksis this an gnome terminal window? in profile>title and command have you got the 'login shell' box ticked if not ticked it does not read the .bashrc :-) Dave (who took hours to get ~/bin added to his path!)Also don't forget that it may have been commented out in ~/.bash_profile. I made numerous changes to bashrc and nothing took effect, then I noticed that there was a small section in the bash_profile that calls bashrc, and it was commented out. Uncommented it and all was well. Grant
Many thanks .bash_profile was the key Henry -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html