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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:08:42PM +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:14:05PM +1300,
> 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > > It won't see any aliases (and I've tried _everything_)     
> > > unless I run '. etc/profile' in each window.               
> >
> > Are you putting your aliases in ~/.bashrc ?
>
> Why would I do that? I'm running busybox ash, not bash.
> And I've just spent an hour reading the manpage. It reads
> /etc/profile or ~/.profile.

I just read through the faq. It _says_ bash, but doesn't
have many of the features I'm used to with bash2, so I'm
guessing it's bash1. 

But bash looks for /etc/profile if it doesn't find 
~/.bashrc, and when I copied /etc/profile to ~/.bashrc
and rebooted, I couldn't use my aliases with swm either!
Maybe that's because I didn't have a ~/.bash_profile, too,
but if the shell wasn't reading /etc/profile, as it's doing
now, then I wouldn't be able to use those aliases. And I
am. And all the other environment variables therein are
available. Either way!

[delete]

Lee

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