[techtalk] more netscape woes...

[Laurel Fan]

bash is annoying in that way. From the manpage:

"When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, it first reads and 
executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. 
After reading that  file,  it  looks  for ~/.bash_profile, 
~/.bash_login, and  ~/.profile,  in  that order, and reads and executes
commands from the first  one that  exists and is readable.  The
--noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this
behavior.  When a login shell exits, bash reads and  executes  commands
from the file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.

"When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists.  This
may be inhibited by using the --norc option.   The  --rcfile  file
option will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of
~/.bashrc."

Which means it runs EITHER .profile (if its a login shell) OR .bashrc
(if its not).  Which is annoying.  (Of course, you could put a "source
.bashrc" in your profile.). csh does it the right way: .login and .cshrc
(actually, /etc/.login then .cshrc then .login) for login shells, and
just .cshrc for non-login shells.


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