Re: [tlug] .bashrc not being source correctly

[Richard Frankum <richard.frankum+mailinglist@example.com>]

>From what I can see from the bash man page, under the INVOCATION
header, .bashrc is not sourced when you run a login shell as you are
doing here. Do you get your aliases if you run su without the '-'
parameter?

This seems to be a good overview:
http://joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html

--Richard

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Jean-Christian Imbeault
<jc.imbeault@example.com> wrote:
> When I su to a different user I've noticed that my .bashrc doesn't
> seem to be sourced since the .bashrc_aliases isn't being used.
>
> Specifically:
>
> jci@example.com:~$ su - www-data
> www-data@example.com:~$ ls -a .bash*
> .bash_aliases  .bash_history  .bashrc
> www-data@example.com:~$ cat .bash_aliases
> alias ll="ls -l"
> www-data@example.com:~$ ll
> ll: command not found
>
> My .bashrc contains the following near the end of the file:
>
> if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
>    . ~/.bash_aliases
> fi
>
> I know there is nothing wrong with the .bashrc since I can source it
> and then my alias works. So I'm guessing the .bashrc is not getting
> sourced at all when I do 'su - www-data'?
>
> Thanks!


-- 
--Richard Frankum