hey thanks that did the trick ps. ben still on 7 have not loaded 7.1 yet i just bought it today On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:26:11PM -0500, Nicolas Beaulieu wrote:

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Landy Roman wrote:

<*]Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:20:38 -0500 <*]From: Landy Roman <*]To: suse-list <*]Subject: [SLE] silly but is not working <*] <*]trying to alias the ls command i put alias ls='ls -l' in .bashrc and it does not work any idea

Have you run "source ~/.bashrc" afterwards ?

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On Wednesday 28 February 2001 20:36, Landy Roman wrote:

hey thanks that did the trick

ps. ben still on 7 have not loaded 7.1 yet i just bought it today

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:26:11PM -0500, Nicolas Beaulieu wrote:

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Landy Roman wrote:

<*]Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:20:38 -0500 <*]From: Landy Roman <*]To: suse-list <*]Subject: [SLE] silly but is not working <*] <*]trying to alias the ls command i put alias ls='ls -l' in .bashrc and it does not work any idea

Have you run "source ~/.bashrc" afterwards ?

Landy, You are probably logged in as root, and trying to get this through an X console of some sort. I had this happen. I don't remember the details, but I don't believe etc provile gets sourced under thoes conditions. WRT .bashrc I believe that only gets surced when you enter a non-login shell. Try .bash-profile. HTH, Steve