Editing ~/.bashrc

dyscoria · 2008-01-11 21:36:41

I've added certain aliases to my "~/.bashrc" file, such as:

alias p="pacman"

They are working for my normal user, but how can I get them to work for the root account?

Many thanks.

cu3edweb · 2008-01-11 21:45:01

root has it's own dir (/root) if you add the alias to the root bashrc in /root/.bashrc it should work as expected.

Snowman · 2008-01-11 21:46:22

Add them to your root user's .bashrc: /root/.bashrc

phrakture · 2008-01-11 21:52:47

Additionally, if you want to make it global across all users on your system, you can do something like putting it in "/etc/profile.d/custom.sh" (and chmod +x that file).

jacko · 2008-01-11 23:24:41

phrakture wrote:

Additionally, if you want to make it global across all users on your system, you can do something like putting it in "/etc/profile.d/custom.sh" (and chmod +x that file).

I did this, made the file, made it run as executable and inserted the command

alias pad='mousepad'

and it doesn't work. Am I stupid?

Last edited by jacko (2008-01-11 23:25:00)

rson451 · 2008-01-11 23:32:39

i think you need to log out and log back in before that would take effect. have you done that?

jacko · 2008-01-12 00:52:13

rson451 wrote:

i think you need to log out and log back in before that would take effect. have you done that?

I even reboot. Nothing

zyghom · 2008-01-12 05:51:51

jacko wrote:

rson451 wrote:
i think you need to log out and log back in before that would take effect. have you done that?
I even reboot. Nothing

.bashrc is loaded when you enter command bash - no need for reboot

B-Con · 2008-01-12 09:56:57

If you just type "$ alias", do you see that alias listed?

kakTuZ · 2008-01-12 12:33:28

same problem here. "$ alias" works, "root # alias" gives proper output, too. But

kaktuz ~  $  sudo alias
sudo: alias: command not found

Last edited by kakTuZ (2008-01-12 12:39:00)

schivmeister · 2008-01-12 13:07:18

Your problem right there. You can't use it that way, with sudo. Or rather, you can't use sudo that way. All my sudo aliases are in ~/. I copied over to /root and just sed all sudos There may be a way to create a function so the shell checks whether you're root or not and removes sudo before issuing the command, but i'm lazy to figure it out and also having 2 bashrcs is not gonna take up even 1MB of space.

jacko · 2008-01-12 15:33:25

zyghom wrote:

jacko wrote:
rson451 wrote:
i think you need to log out and log back in before that would take effect. have you done that?
I even reboot. Nothing
.bashrc is loaded when you enter command bash - no need for reboot

we are not talking about .bashrc we are talking about /etc/profile.d/custom.sh, I am trying to follow AG's advice and well it doesn't work!

jacko · 2008-01-12 15:34:45

B-Con wrote:

If you just type "$ alias", do you see that alias listed?

no, the only alias I see listed is the one that is in .bashrc of my users ~/ directory. Again, I followed AG's advice precisely and nothing works as suggested.

schivmeister · 2008-01-12 17:22:55

It doesn't matter what we are talking about, as long as we source it So you may want to just have 2 bashrcs and get straight to work. Anyway run a checklist like (1) permissions 755? (2) sourced? to troubleshoot why this doesn't work.

Last edited by schivmeister (2008-01-12 17:27:19)

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