Bug 6311 - Several bash things are hosed
Summary: Several bash things are hosed
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: bash
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-10-24 18:47 UTC by alanf
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-02-04 17:25:24 UTC
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Description alanf 1999-10-24 18:47:53 UTC
In installing 6.1 I found that the .bashrc file ends with a
floating "fi", which causes a complaint when logging in and
when a new terminal is brought up in GNOME.

The .bashrc file tries to execute "/etc/bashrc" but this
can't happen because the permissions on /etc/bashrc are all
set to "no execute".

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-25 15:30:59 UTC
Which bashrc are you talking about?

/etc/bashrc has:

# /etc/bashrc

# System wide functions and aliases
# Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile

# For some unknown reason bash refuses to inherit
# PS1 in some circumstances that I can't figure out.
# Putting PS1 here ensures that it gets loaded every time.
PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

and /etc/skel/.bashrc has:

# .bashrc

# User specific aliases and functions

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
	. /etc/bashrc
fi

I don't see any unbalanced ifs here, and sourcing /etc/bashrc
works fine.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-26 15:38:59 UTC
The permissions on /etc/bashrc are 644;
with those permissions, the exact same snippet of
shell code works fine; i.e.  '. /etc/bashrc'.

Also, I tried adding a user with 'adduser foo', and
it came up with a normal (no extra fi) .bashrc.

Are you using something else to create the users?

Are you sure it's not something else giving you the error?

Comment 3 Cristian Gafton 2000-02-04 17:25:59 UTC
Closed due to lack of feedback


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