[Linux-disciples] trouble with .bashrc

[Jamie Forrest]

First thanks for your help.

> Perhaps counterintuitively, bash reads .bashrc only if it is run as
> -not- the login shell (and it is run interactively).  So you want to 
> put
>
>     . ~/.bashrc
>
> (as Steve mentioned) in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile file.
> (~/.bash_profile overrides ~/.profile)

okay I did that.  So now ~/.profile file looks like:

. ~/.bashrc
test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh

But it still doesn't prompt me.  Any other leads?

> By the way, you don't need to set executable permission on ~/.bashrc,
> ~/.profile, or ~/.bash_profile

Okay thanks.  That's changed now.

Jamie