Re: .bashrc not working (and yes I've read the FAQ etc as you'll see)

[dave at adboyd dot com (J. David Boyd)]

"Steve Mayes" <mayes.s@UCLES.org.uk> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Forgive the defensive addendum but I've no wish to be either flamed or
> ignored when I've tried available pathways to solving this.
> 
> Situation:
> 
> .bashrc not working and yes my $home variable is correctly defined but I
> put a copy of .bashrc into / anyway just in case.
> The --login and -i switches are used.
> I even used the --rcfile switch and pointed it directly to my .bashrc
> file at which point cygwin just bombs out.
> 
> .bashrc file contains only the line
> 
> Alias ls='ls -al --color=auto'
> 
> I even made .bashrc executable using the command chmod +x (just in case)
> but this changed none of the behaviour.   What am I missing.
> 
> Steve

I remember having some problem like this.  To get around it (I am the only
user on this machine), I added the line

. $HOME/.bashrc

to the very end of /etc/profile.  It's probably not the 'right' way to do it,
but who cares.  It works fine.


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