Michael Lankton wrote:

If you use bash, global settings are defined in /etc/profile, and local settings are defined in .profile. That isn't specific to SuSE, it is specific to bash.

Michael, This is only vaguely related to the above comment, but I'd like to configure "root" for the settings in profile, and I'm not entirely sure how to accomplish this. (BTW, I use bash exclusively.) Specifically, I'd like to be able to use the command-line aliases that S.u.S.E. engineers have conveniently placed in profile when I'm logged in as superuser. These would be aliases like "o," "l," and the like. Yep, this question is pretty basic, but I can't seem to manage to get a handle on it. -- Glenn -- PS -- Great Sailor Moon WM theme. Any other anime themes in the pike? - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

Michael Lankton wrote:

misc.word.corp wrote:

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Specifically, I'd like to be able to use the command-line aliases that S.u.S.E. engineers have conveniently placed in profile when I'm logged in as superuser.

If you don't mind all users getting these aliases put them in /etc/profile, otherwise try creating a file /root/.profile and declaring your aliases there.

Thanks for the quick reply! I thought that /root/.profile might do the trick; I created the file, ".'d" it as superuser (in /root), and the aliases were immediatedly usable. Wonder if I'll need to re-.'d it on my next reboot. We'll see. Thanks. -- Glenn -- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e