Re: [tlug] .bashrc not being source correctly

[Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc.imbeault@example.com>]

Richard, you've nailed it. I didn't know that .bashrc is not used for
login shells ... 'su' without the '-' does indeed source everything
correctly.

Thanks for the great link. I'll read it and try to figure out how to
create .bash_profile.

Jc

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Richard Frankum
<richard.frankum+mailinglist@example.com> wrote:
> >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!
>
>
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> --Richard Frankum
>
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