Christopher Ballog wrote:
Hello
There are two different file which control Bash shell.
1. One is the profile file in the /etc directory and 2. The second is .bashrc file in each user personal directory under the /home directory.
But, when you log in as root, and even though you create a .bashrc in the root home directory, it doesn't seem to have any affect on the shell that the root uses. Why? (I tried to set it up to run the fortunes as root, and can't get it to run? why?
The profile in the /etc directory controls system wide environment.
Christopher
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