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lumbar

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 8

root-shell doesn't source /root/.bashrc

Moin

When I change to the root user the bashrc is not sourced. No matter if I "su -" or login as root, the /root/.bashrc is not source. I need to manually type "source ~./.bashrc".

On all other Linux-distros I ever used this was done automatically.

How can I change this behavious?

Thanks in advance.

stabele

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 101

Re: root-shell doesn't source /root/.bashrc

I am not 100% sure, but I suppose that after "su -" is bash invogen in login mode. In that case it uses ~/.bash_profile - do you have this file in home and is line ". $HOME/.bashrc" inside ?

hbekel

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Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 311

Re: root-shell doesn't source /root/.bashrc

yes, "su -" invokes a login shell. source ~/.bashrc from ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile, as stabele suggested. See man bash for the gory details about rcfile loading.

rine

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 217

Re: root-shell doesn't source /root/.bashrc

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

in your ~/.profile

lumbar

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 8

Re: root-shell doesn't source /root/.bashrc

It works, thank you very much.

Shouldn't this be the default behaviour?

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: root-shell doesn't source /root/.bashrc

no

edit: But it is customary to `. ~/.bashrc` in ~/.bash_profile

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-04-27 13:35:23)

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dmartins

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Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 360

Re: root-shell doesn't source /root/.bashrc

both .bashrc and .bash_profile are available from /etc/skel. Usually, the contents of this directory are copied to a new user's home directory when using the useradd command. I'm not sure why they're not added to the /root directory on a fresh install. The answer is probably on the arch-dev-public mailing list.